Caught In The Act Quotes

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Opportunity, Men

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• Nothing on earth compares to the strength God is willing to interject into lives caught in the act of believing.

  Beth Moore

  Believe, Earth, Compare

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group

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• In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.

  Spike Milligan

  Wife, India, Cows

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• There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

  Juvenal

  Women, Wrath, Inspire

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  Paul Auster

  Fighting, Winning, Hands

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

  Todd Rundgren

  Night, People, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

  Margaret Atwood

  Doors, Want, Posse

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

  Annie Dillard

  Moving, Later In Life, Cells

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