Misdemeanors Quotes

• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

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• There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

  Donella Meadows

  Hype, Special, President

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• You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Falling In Love, Children

  "Fictional character: Professor Levy". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Sex, Liberty

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• I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Felony

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.795, Scholastic Inc.

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• While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

  Woody Allen

  Teacher, Giving, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Clifford Stern". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Reading, Men

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• MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Criminals, Dignity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

  Willie Brown

  Political, Politics, Crime

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• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mistake, Errors, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

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• The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kings, Law, Punishment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.524, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar manner, responsible for their conduct, and subject him to impeachment himself, if he suffers them to perpetrate with impunity high crimes or misdemeanors against the United States, or neglects to superintend their conduct, so as to check their excesses.

  James Madison

  Thinking, Should Have, Office

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone.

  Sally Stanford

  Book, People, Stones

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• Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

  Bill Moyers

  People, Faces, Determined

  Source: progressive.org

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• The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Body, Congress

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• I’m praying for a misdemeanor

  Bobby Bowden

  Praying

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• In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so much innocent pleasure.

  Marcel Desaulniers

  Food, Yesterday, Chocolate

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• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Errors, Long, Sorrow

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

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• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Lynching, Judging

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• Mental health courts exist because the system has failed.
  If these people were being treated,
  they wouldn't end up with misdemeanor charges or
  felony charges against them in the first place.
  The very existence of mental health courts is really an
  indication of the system's failure.

  E. Fuller Torrey

  People, Firsts, Mental Health

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• If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Ocean, Heart

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• I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.

  Mae West

  Sex, Missing

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• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Successful, Trials, Lost

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• The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country's international reputation.

  Phil Robertson

  Life, Country, Book

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