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Quotes About Investigation

Are you going to tell him what you told me? he asked. About how you solved the case? I don't know, Stevie said as her breath puffed out in front of her like a feather of rots. No. I don't know. Maybe. No. And if I stay, it's more time to get what I need - anything I can find to bolster the case. Well, Nate said, now that we belong to The Shining reenactment society, you might as well go for it. Last chance.
~ Maureen Johnson
Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams. They are not supposed to be famous for murders.
~ Maureen Johnson
Okay. How about detectives? What about Sherlock Holmes?" Stevie rolled her eyes. "What's wrong with Sherlock Holmes?" Janelle asked. "Nothing is wrong with Sherlock Holmes," Stevie said. "But he's not a costume. He's . .
~ Maureen Johnson
On all crime shows, it's usually the third person the cops interview. It's the one you sort of think it is. In life, the murderer is anyone. The reasons, the methods, the circumstances—the paths to becoming a murderer are as numerous as the stars. Understanding this is the first step to finding a murderer. You have to shut down the voices in your mind that say, "It has to be this person." Murderers aren't a type. They're anyone.
~ Maureen Johnson
background. Nancy had an antique brass bed. I had the feeling these girls weren't two of a kind. Meanwhile, I was going through things. The name she was using here was Glenna Cole, but I found identification cards of various sorts in several other names. The
~ Max Allan Collins
May 11, Trump admitted to Lester Holt of NBC News that he was determined to fire Comey "regardless" of the recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in order to stop the investigation of the "Russia thing." Trump isn't the first president to attempt to obstruct justice. But he is the first to admit what he was doing on national TV, and his admissions led to the appointment of former FBI director Robert S. Mueller as a special counsel.
~ Max Boot
From 1973 onward, if nine intelligence analysts came to the same conclusion, it was the duty of the tenth to disagree. No matter how unlikely or far-fetched a possibility might be, one must always dig deeper.
~ Max Brooks
you dig and dig until you strike the absolute truth.
~ Max Brooks
For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.
~ Maya Angelou
Wow," he said, his voice as sarcastic as before. "I had no idea I was related to such an accomplished detective. Is that where you were the past couple of days? Doing undercover work? Tell me, Detective Oliviera, what else did you and your CSI team learn during your amazing investigation?" "She learned," Mr. Liu said, taking a menacing step forward, "that boys who smart off to ladies often get slapped.
~ Meg Cabot
I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly. "I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked.
~ Meg Cabot
Ya? Aku bersandar penuh harap di susuran tangga. Alasanku melarangmu melakukan penyelidikan ini sendirian, aku menduga - yah, baiklah, berharap - dia akan berkata begitu, Itu karena aku tidak sanggup membayangkanmu membahayakan dirimu sendiri. Kau tahu, aku mencintaimu, Heather. Aku selalu mencintaimu.
~ Meg Cabot
How about y'all take a seat now, and let's get right to business,' Muffy says as she tucks her cream-colored skirt beneath her in a ladylike manner. We all do as she suggested and take a seat, with the exception of Special Agent Lancaster, who declares he'd prefer to stand. I suppose if he sat down, the stick up his butt would lodge so deeply into his brain that he would instantly expire, and then we'd have another corpse on our hands, so it's just as well.
~ Meg Cabot
On a whiteboard, a detective had written Tips called in: 452. Tips cleared: GET TO WORK.
~ Meg Gardiner
out the pins. "All detectives wear badges. These
~ Megan McDonald
With everything else going wrong so far, he was sure the police would try to use his sweat as some sort of proof of guilt.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The Yard needs a young man for this, someone who's not afraid of tramping through muck to look at dead bodies and figure out how they got that way. He cast an apologetic sidelong glance at Miss Frost. I positively thrive on reports of gruesome murder, she said.
~ Melissa Scott
It was in that old Yellow Front building past the corp yard. The one they're tearing down now for The Store. It's been empty for a long time, but some lady reported seeing teenagers breaking in. So I went over to check it out." There was a brief pause. "The shadows were in there.
~ Bentley Little
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said thou shalt not, and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.
~ Bertrand Russell
William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt' ... what is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell
Os conceitos da vida e do mundo que chamamos filosóficos são produto de dois fatores: um, constituído de fatores religiosos e éticos herdados; o outro, pela espécie de investigação que podemos denominar científica, empregando a palavra em seu sentido mais amplo.
~ Bertrand Russell
The conceptions of life and the world which we call 'philosophical' are a product of two factors: one, inherited religious and ethical conceptions; the other, the sort of investigation which may be called 'scientific
~ Bertrand Russell
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell