#loc

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#bearable #brave #brave men #commitments #communities

We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research. ↗

— Abraham Robinson

#appointments #colleges #conclude #course #cruz

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#block #choose #chop #i #marble

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. ↗

— Bill Russell

#block #every #idea #make #might

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock. ↗

— Roselyn Sanchez

#bilingual #bullock #came #going #here

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life. ↗

— Jimmy Sangster

#enjoy life #life #locked #much #obscure

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#change #children #control #convinced #country

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#chairs #constant #directors #i #left

The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body. So...this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#blaylock #jr-ward #lover-mine #saxton #dating