#inn

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#been #beginning #change #drawing #far

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#fur #more #rubbing #skinning #than

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#gareth-st-clair #hyacinth-bridgerton #it-s-in-his-kiss #julia-quinn #life

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. ↗

— John Marshall

#guilt #innocence #justice #law #legality

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#difference #do the right thing #i #just #just be

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#life

Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#raymond-quinn #life

As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment. ↗

— Anne Rice

#lestat #mayfair #mona #quinn #taltos

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty." Levin nodded thoughtfully. "The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients," I said. "I'm not sure I do, either. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #fear #guilt #innocence #justice

Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow up” we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of loss. ↗

— Alberto Alvaro Ríos

#innocence #life #experience