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Quotes About Culprit

a big boy did it and ran away
~ Christopher Brookmyre
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs
~ Tom Waits
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
after the matter has cooled off during an extended period of investigation, to find a scapegoat to blame for unauthorized tampering with the mails.
~ Unknown
Sibilia could not get past two things: (1) that the USFL's dysfunction was the greatest culprit in the league's failings, and (2) Trump was awful. "He was extremely arrogant and I thought that he was obviously trying to play the game. He wanted an NFL franchise . . . the USFL was a cheap way in.
~ Jeff Pearlman
Then," the girl continued, in a quiet monotone, "the individual applied a high-temperature pack to the forward leg—the right leg. The statue is a poured thermoplastic. When the leg became flexible, the culprit reshaped its position. Major Streiter now appears to be holding his head in his hand, ready to kick it far into the park. Quite original, and quite embarrassing.
~ Philip K. Dick
it would be a real pity to die when I'd finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess—
~ Jim Butcher
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
~ W. C. Fields
If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against
~ Priscilla Shirer
Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14).
~ Priscilla Shirer
Just wanted to remind you that we're out of milk again. And hot sauce. Why are those two always out at the same time? Because those do not go together. I suspect Shane. He'd put hot sauce in anything, Michael said.
~ Rachel Caine
Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.
~ Unknown
By chasing the wrong suspect, the police and prosecutors had allowed the real killer's trail to grow cold. He has yet to be found.
~ John Grisham
It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...
~ Marcel Proust
right. There's DNA on those sheets. You got her, even if you don't get
~ John Sandford
In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it is self-esteem.
~ Marcel Proust
when leaders fail to thrive, the culprit is often their leadership character, not their lack of skills.
~ Mark Miller
The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Probe should be started against the media that has reported about rising Covid cases in schools to dig out its actual source of funding the program and the culprit behind it.
~ Unknown
So, if people in Asia or Africa who eat lots of carbohydrates have very little diabetes, and if the disease becomes more and more common as carbohydrates are excluded from the diet, researchers have had to conclude that a high-carbohydrate diet is not the cause of the disease. In fact, the culprit seems to be lurking in our Western diets.
~ Unknown
What was the crime, who did it, when was it done, and where? How done, and with what motive, who in the deed did share?
~ Ngaio Marsh
Büyük Suçlular Ansiklopedisi"ni okumaya ba?lad?. L harfine kadar geldi. Kendinden büyük suçlu bulamad?.
~ Unknown
The medical examiner had found what appeared to be the markings of a tenderizing instrument on the pieces of biceps and thigh. The markings corresponded with a wooden meat tenderizer recovered from the scene. The paper-thin cuts of individually wrapped heart and liver made it look as though he was storing the "food" for later use.
~ Unknown
Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.
~ Paul Auster