Alafair Burke quote: "Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience."

Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked...
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According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. Mo...
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Hmmm... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking... I do a good braised short ribs with...
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I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all t...
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I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids...
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There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and...
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Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was...
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Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
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In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the l...
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I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could c...
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Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families co...
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Jesse James's next tattoo should be a warning label: Danger. Loving this man could break you.
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Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series ...
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I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal ...
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Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequ...
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Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love...
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The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is ha...
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
EDMUND BURKE

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
EDMUND BURKE

Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black...
DELTA BURKE

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
BROOKE BURKE

This is just going to be a different year because of the rain. Now it's going to be a matter of keep...
ALANE BURKE

We still have nine games left, so this is just the beginning. We're still sitting in second place, s...
ALANE BURKE

The whole thing was beautiful to see, just perfect.
ALANE BURKE

I definitely think we can make playoffs. We're starting to really click and look strong. We have a c...
ALANE BURKE

Not only does Sarah have great physical and technical skills for the game, but she also has a great ...
ALANE BURKE

She had been hoping to play stopper her senior year and now she is. She earned that position. She's ...
ALANE BURKE

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
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And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard ...
DELTA BURKE

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE

But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE

What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
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The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE

Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin...
DELTA BURKE

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transit...
DELTA BURKE

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE

All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
EDMUND BURKE

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
EDMUND BURKE

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I...
SUZIE BURKE

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equ...
EDMUND BURKE

You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to ...
JAMES BURKE

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a stat...
EDMUND BURKE

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminati...
EDMUND BURKE

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill ...
EDMUND BURKE

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical ...
EDMUND BURKE

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
EDMUND BURKE

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
EDMUND BURKE

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhoo...
EDMUND BURKE

Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories...
EDMUND BURKE

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...
EDMUND BURKE

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but...
EDMUND BURKE

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existi...
EDMUND BURKE

Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and...
EDMUND BURKE

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the chur...
EDMUND BURKE

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
EDMUND BURKE

Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of...
EDMUND BURKE

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superio...
EDMUND BURKE

The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems...
EDMUND BURKE

I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature, and maint...
EDMUND BURKE

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these ...
EDMUND BURKE

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the p...
EDMUND BURKE

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but...
EDMUND BURKE

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the m...
EDMUND BURKE

Education is the cheap defence of nations.
EDMUND BURKE

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
EDMUND BURKE

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his...
EDMUND BURKE

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri...
EDMUND BURKE

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell ...
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
EDMUND BURKE

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
EDMUND BURKE

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threa...
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the ...
EDMUND BURKE

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
BILLIE BURKE

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
BILLIE BURKE

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
BILLIE BURKE

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
EDMUND BURKE

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution...
EDMUND BURKE

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
EDMUND BURKE

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...
EDMUND BURKE

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be...
EDMUND BURKE

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From ...
EDMUND BURKE

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
JAMES BURKE

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the educ...
EDMUND BURKE

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the w...
JAMES BURKE

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
EDMUND BURKE

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the ...
EDMUND BURKE

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much ...
EDMUND BURKE

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be ...
EDMUND BURKE

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE

Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

The key to why things change is the key to everything.
JAMES BURKE

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE

It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
EDMUND BURKE

Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH BURKE

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the...
EDMUND BURKE

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE BURKE

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE

The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE

Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
MICHAEL BURKE

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE

Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE

Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE

Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE

Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE

Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE

Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.

Alafair Burke

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