149 Quotes by Scott Turow

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

I would say there's a spark," I told her, still caught up in that fixed look, her green eyes with their clever gleam. "I would say you'd make a hell of a Boy Scout.""Boy Scout?""Yes, ma'am, cause you keep rubbing that stick, you're gonna get a lot more than a spark.""I'm hoping for that.

Legal education," Nader said, "assumes its chief purpose to be the development within a refined ethical framework of the analytical and empirical skills necessary to further justice.

It was not that I felt that i'd done poorly; Ijust realized that I'd missed the chance to do wel..

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do wel..

I am not sure," I answered. "I hope it won't break my heart if I don't do well." I had been concentrating on developing that kind of attitude since I'd emerged from my depression in November. I'd realized how much I had taken the achievement ethic to heart - I had been so hard on my mistakes and middling performances. A sincere effort was all I owed myself.

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do very well.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help.