Quotes About Delinquents
Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.
~ Jonathan Banks
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If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
~ Peter Mullan
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She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs, but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh.
~ Roald Dahl
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Aside from being an organization front, this place was also a legitimate mission, having as much hot soup and as many mismatched shoes as any other mission in New York, and counters to dispense these items were along the left wall. Juvenile delinquents, looking dangerously bored, manned these posts with less than apparent devotion.
~ Donald E. Westlake
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The Planned Parenthood Foundation was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, who thought philanthropy would 'perpetuate constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents'. The organisation's international arm was headquartered in the offices of the British Eugenics Society as late as 1952.
~ Matt Ridley
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A regime that trawls for drug users or other petty delinquents will net a certain number of violent people as bycatch, further thinning the ranks of the violent people who remain on the streets. Incarceration
~ Steven Pinker
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As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
~ LZ Granderson
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Anti-Semites are imbeciles and delinquents.
~ Matteo Salvini
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Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.
~ Steven Weber
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In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
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And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?
~ Michael Buckley
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Police surveillance provides the prison with offenders, which the prison transforms into delinquents, the targets and auxiliaries of police supervisions, which regularly send back a certain number of them to prison.
~ Michel Foucault
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Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
~ Peggy Noonan
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His private opinion about a lot of the baby thugs and delinquents he encountered on the job was that what they really yearned after, whether they knew it or not, was a rifle and a horse and a herd of cattle to drive through dangerous terrain.
~ Tana French
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Kennedy, who had a mentally ill sister, also moved more actively than presidential predecessors to advance the cause of mental health. In 1963 Congress passed a Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Act, which funded local mental health centers that were to provide a range of out-patient services, including marital counseling, help for delinquents, and programs for unwed mothers and alcoholics.
~ James T. Patterson
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at the beginning of September, parliament declared that those who opposed its intentions were 'delinquents' or 'malignant and disaffected persons' whose property could be confiscated.
~ Peter Ackroyd
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rapscallions
~ Unknown
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There must be concentric circles around us and boundaries. French hedonist philosopher Michel Onfray coined the word eumetry (the "good measure"): the right measure of safe distance that must be kept with "relational delinquents" in order to secure a life of pleasure.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
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So what's with the crown?" Daphne asked. Puck's eyes grew wide. "I'm the Prince of Fairies. Emperor of Pixies, Brownies, Hobgoblins, Elves and Gnomes. King of Tricksters and Prank-Players, spiritual leader to juvenile delinquents, layabouts and bad apples.
~ Michael Buckley
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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
~ Peggy Noonan
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