#prose

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. ↗

— Clare Short

#advice #again #attorney #because #brought

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#conferences #contrast #fairness #go #hold

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ↗

— George William Curtis

#always #conversation #escapes #ghost #interview

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#committed #congress #crimes #high #misdemeanors

Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#nonsense #prose #verse #humor

Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need. ↗

— Chris Howard

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #prose #inspirational

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

#both #distinguish #i #i do #most

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#estate #most #next #prose #real

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope