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This individual is no stranger to criminal activity.


Rick Hays

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This is a pause. It is not a renunciation of criminal activity.
MARIANO RAJOY We can pinpoint individual neighborhoods when we are looking for missing persons or to make resident...
CAROL ROEGNER What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS Those (behavioral traits) are definitely linked to criminal activity and to terrorism.
GEORGE NACCARA The IRA's criminal activity will be hard to hide but easy to deny,
ED MOLONEY To be a skinhead is to be violent. They have a great tendency to engage in criminal activity.
BARRY MORRISON That [criminal] activity that he did was done thoughtfully, cunningly by him.
STEVEN DECKER During a conversation with Barr, indicators led troopers to believe criminal activity was present.
ROCKY GONZALEZ It is readily known to the police service that it is not hard to obtain firearms when involved in cr...
DAN COLLINS The IRA's criminal activity will be hard to hide but easy to deny, ... may even intensify.
ED MOLONEY winter is no stranger to cold hearts.
SAKHILE KOAHO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK Their primary focus is probably criminal activity, but they have attacked coalition forces through d...
DAVID HOGG If you have an individual that you know has been through the criminal system a number of times, then...
GLENN JONES To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
MALCOLM X To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM X It's inexplicable that he can't do something so simple as to not get involved in criminal activity.
SCOTT DAVIS That was fraud. We had records that showed they spent this on personal expenses. That was in the rec...
GAIL GRIFFIN There's long been concern about privacy on the Internet. What's different now is there is more crimi...
JOE WILCOX Was he dragged into criminal activity to which he was not predisposed, by a government overbearing h...
JAMES COMEY I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Now that we have Mr. Short in custody, we'll investigate to determine whether or not he is linked to...
LUCILLE BAUR I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT This school board administration will not stomach this kind of activity going on on our buses or sch...
BUCKY BURNSED Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.
VLADIMIR USTINOV It was even colder inside (the silo than outside) ... these guys were freezing.
RICK HAYS Commonly and historically groups (of illegal aliens) of this size are found in houses or trailers .....
RICK HAYS Our aim is not to provoke confrontation ... However, every deliberate act of non-compliance, or any ...
ROBIN CLIFFORD It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I'm no stranger to fucking up.
KATHLEEN GLASGOW A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give ris...
POTTER STEWART Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... "You Found...
DEYTH BANGER One strike is a means of providing as safe a housing as we can for those people who are not going to...
BILLIE SPICUZZA We were supposed to play full-deny against Hays. It didn't happen.
ANTONIO VELOSO He has a criminal record that goes back to the 1990s, primarily theft and forgeries, receiving stole...
GREG HICKS This makes these new accounts even more susceptible to criminal activity. Who pays the charge then? ...
DAVID STANLEY There is no criminal finding, ... There is no recommendation to make any repayment to the county.
PAT ANDERSON So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give...
POTTER STEWART walk into a room, and no one was a stranger to him.
MIKE DEWINE If this thing passes it helps Rick Perry.
GARY KEITH (Meijer) knew, or should have known, that criminal activity in its ... store and surrounding parking...
WILLIAM MILLS Hays beat Ulysses. We are going to have to get hungry to turn it around.
STEVE WARNER Hays, Kansas is quite well known for the number of Germans from Russia that reside here.
LEONA PFEIFER Keep yourself a stranger and pilgrim upon earth, to whom the affairs of this world are of no concern...
THOMAS KEMPIS It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye conta...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS Rick came to me this week and told me of his situation,
BRUCE ALLEN There is no criminal investigation into the matter of photos of deceased bodies in Iraq being posted...
PAUL BOYCE Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I've never been given a satisfactory explanation for why what was seen at the start as criminal acti...
GORDON MACINNES He has zero criminal record. This is his first interaction with the criminal justice system.
ADAM BERNSTEIN There is no need for this play. He is a criminal and all people know that. Execute him and that is t...
ABU MOHAMMED Oh, oh, oh... No... just they got me. Undercover??? and what more??
This and this??
DEYTH BANGER There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN At this point there is no reason to look into it. Everything points to this as an accident. There is...
CARLOS VALDEZ Fort Hays right now is the highest provider of higher education in China that is not a Chinese unive...
EDWARD HAMMOND To those people whose main goal or mission it is to come to Los Angeles and engage in criminal activ...
HORACE FRANK Access to social welfare is no longer a right to all, but a privilege for the few. The criminal gove...
VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that th...
JOHN DEWEY Unfortunately, people are getting defrauded all the time. Sometimes there's criminal activity, and o...
KAREN ERNST Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a dis...
DANIEL WOODRELL If I ever offer to plan your wedding or sweet sixteen or something, do yourself a favor and run away...
GWEN HAYES Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to co...
BRAD HOLLAND If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done...
PHYLLIS DILLER If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done...
PHYLLIS DILLER Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS This is a prank where no harm was intended or caused. This should be handled administratively and no...
BRYAN WILLIAMS This is criminal negligence by the state.
BUSHRA GOHAR By better characterizing crime trends and patterns to predict where crime was likely to occur, the p...
COLLEEN MCCUE They bring a negative element to neighborhoods, increase criminal activity. So, that's what we're tr...
JUSTIN OHLEMILLER This country is run by a war criminal and his vice president, an even bigger war criminal.
RALPH NADER It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN No, it is not. I want that facility and Rick Sanchez said I can have any facility I want.
ABU GHRAIB It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is ...
AARON DIXON We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.
ALASTAIR PILKINGTON There is no indication at all that her family had any contacts with this individual,
JEFF DAWSY I recognize the fact that we operate under the premise that an individual is innocent until proven g...
MICHAEL GIBSON There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mi...
CHANDRIKA KUMARATUNGA We have seen a definite correlation between illegal activities of all sorts. Between criminal code a...
TOM HARP The investigators felt there was no criminal wrongdoing.
TOM BERLINGER We're concerned because this is a stranger rape and he is likely to commit more assaults.
PETE CRUM This is going to be a real activity center.
TOM KANE Here on the border, we don't exactly fall under 'interior enforcement,' but any information we get o...
BROCK NICHOLSON No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too ...
CLARK H. MINOR That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON We often see an increase in criminal and fraudulent activity of all kinds during the holiday season....
ALEX JOHNSON Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunishe...
SALLY YATES Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
STELLA BENSON The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activ...
VINT CERF Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault? Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man...
HUMPHREY BOGART At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equall...
SALLY YATES What we believe should happen now is that Judge Munoz should file formal charges against Pinochet, w...
CARMEN HERTZ It was kind of weird. I thought it was a bill collector. I was ready to hang up until he asked, 'Is ...
JOE BLANDINO The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbo...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER This is a celebration, a culmination activity.
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RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really."
Her...
RICK RIORDAN It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv...
RICK RIORDAN Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mor...
RICK RIORDAN You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
RICK RIORDAN Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as fa...
RICK RIORDAN I said hello to the poodle.
RICK RIORDAN Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter."

RICK RIORDAN Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.<...
RICK RIORDAN Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.

Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson...
RICK RIORDAN You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats th...
RICK RIORDAN Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
RICK RIORDAN