"Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges."

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Source : Jeff Abbott (2002). “Black Jack Point”, Signet

Jeff Abbott

#Smart Quotes #Judging Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“The capacity to forgive is not just about Rwandan women. It is about a willingness of women all over the world to work across conflict lines, to say, "Yes, I'm a Serb. Or yes, I'm a Muslim. Or yes, I'm a Croat. But I'm also a mother."”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.”
“I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.”
“Itâ€™s not important to be consistent, itâ€™s important to be right.”
“Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are â€” bar your thought from this road of inquiry.”

Source : Frag. B 7.1-2, quoted by Plato, "Sophist", 237a,
“Sometimes, when you win, you lose.”
“That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing it into this ocean and no one would even notice. I feel that fear again, the fear of my own size. 'Right. So?' 'So? So everything I've ever worried about or said or done, how can it possibly matter?' He shakes his head. 'It doesn't.' 'Of course it does,' I say, 'All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.”
“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.127, Macmillan

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