Nora Roberts Quotes

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.

I'm interested in how we can put political principles into practice in our personal lives and the limits of theory when it comes to our desires and needs.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt discouraged.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.