#vic

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. ↗

— Joan Chen

#advice #asking #being #believe #general

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#bright #complete #counterparts #dark #distance

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#enter #group #insurance #once #risk

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. ↗

— Lee Child

#pleasure #thrillers #vicarious

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#distressing #extremely #me #nation #newest

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#boy #convicted #crime #good #i

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#crimes #fatal #first #further #had

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#her #much #said #she #thought

You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want. ↗

— Fred Upton

#allowing #companies #compete #consumers #deployment