The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
– Larry McMurtry
Related Quotes:
- Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. – Terry Pratchett
- There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. – Albert Camus
- There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion. – Cassandra Clare
- Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. – Larry McMurtry
- They probably think the sun won’t come up unless you’re there to allow it. – Larry McMurtry
- I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. – Larry McMurtry
- It was something, what must go through men’s mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely. – Larry McMurtry
- She sighed. Men were a pain. – Larry McMurtry
- He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men. – Larry McMurtry
- It was something he had always done – moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little. – Larry McMurtry
- He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present. – Larry McMurtry
- He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present. – Larry McMurtry
- Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways. – Larry McMurtry
- It’s just that it’s fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble. – Larry McMurtry
- She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman. – Larry McMurtry
- It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good. – Larry McMurtry
- Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity? – Larry McMurtry
- Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don’t make a damn bit of sense. – Larry McMurtry
- Once started, love couldn’t easily be stopped. – Larry McMurtry
- The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour. – Larry McMurtry
- How about a kiss?--œAre you man enough to try?- she asked. – Larry McMurtry
- It doesn’t do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to. – Larry McMurtry
- A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well. – Larry McMurtry
- A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life. – Larry McMurtry
- Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected – he got up, of course, but it never felt natural. – Larry McMurtry
- Don’t be trying to give back pain for pain…You can’t get even measures in business like this. – Larry McMurtry
- Who asked them dern pigs?- he said. -œI guess they tracked us,- Augustus said. -œThey’re enterprising pigs. – Larry McMurtry
- Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper,- Augustus said. -œYou ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California. – Larry McMurtry
- Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. – Lon Bloy
- Love is beautiful, yet the worst of crimes are committed in the name of love. So when someone claims to love you, you should question their intent. – Gugu Mona
- To expose kingdom law violators is to understand kingdom law – Sunday Adelaja
- Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them. – TS Eliot
- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
- The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people. – Father Brown
- I can’t understand God and I can’t understand myself, so there’s no chance in hell that I’m going to understand you! – Anthony T Hincks
- You have the power to turn your negatives into positives. – Author Mahogany Law – Mahogany Law
- The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can! – John Paul Warren
- If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one. – Scott Klusendorf
- Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law – Douglas R Hofstadter