In the course of crime … the descent is rapid.
– Frederick Marryat
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- The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out. – Wilkie Collins
- Crime? What crime? … My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman … and you call that a crime? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The creation of art requires descent into the dark. – Doug Dorst
- Story should be a descent — the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. – Chuck Wendig
- The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me. – Amanda Hocking
- Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. – Immanuel Kant
- The great design of Jesus’ descent into hell is to rousepeople out of their deep sleep, to deliver them from sin and death. – Tim Liwanag
- Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow. – TS Eliot
- Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. – Bill Maher
- We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it. – mile Durkheim
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? – George Carlin
- If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour on one of those crime story shows. – Spaz tastic
- Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics. – Steven Magee
- Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art – Dean Cavanagh
- Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability. – Amish Tripathi
- Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Rapid expansion coupled with social stability is proof of Umar’s incredible capabilities as a leader – Firas Alkhateeb
- I’m not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn’t? – Charles Bukowski
- So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. – Alexandre Dumas
- I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible. – Sigmund Freud
- Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years! – Tanya Masse
- LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. – George Washington
- Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. – Ron Suskind
- Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject. – Patricia Duncker
- Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner
- People are complicated,- she said. -œDidn’t they teach you that in biography school? – Frederick Weisel
- Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. – Frederick Douglass
- Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. – Frederick Douglass
- Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass
- I’ve learned a hundred secrets,a thousand mysteriesand a million more.But of all the lessons I learned,the greatest is love. – Frederick Espiritu
- Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. – Frederick Buechner
- There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. – Frederick William Faber
- I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. – Frederick Buechner
- If you don’t succeed the first time – you’re about average – Frederick L Coxen
- Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens. – Frederick Buechner
- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! – Frederick Simpson Coburn
- I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. – Frederick Douglass
- Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts. – Frederick Dodson
- I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not. – Frederick Buechner