I thought, 'Maybe I'll get in my truck and try to run him over,' but then I thought, 'He probably has a gun,' so I decided to not be a hero and just go call 911 instead,


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Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns,
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We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole ...
ALISON PARKER
For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates...
ALISON PARKER
This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-...
ALISON PARKER
[Human rights advocates say that the use of juvenile life without parole, or LWOP, is by one measure...
ALISON PARKER
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER
Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER
If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER
Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...
DOROTHY PARKER
There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER
Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER
In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER
Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER
I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER
Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER
Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER
He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER
Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER
They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER
Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER