Thelma Ritter Quotes

You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.

Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

When you get into trouble 5000 miles from home, you have to have been looking for it.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.

I made bad decisions. I'm not denying that I made bad decisions.

My father was jailed off and on for seven years.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.

I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.

You know, the next time you're guilty of anything, the next time you're charged with anything, try saying, "Hey, hey, hey, I didn't mean to run the stop sign." Or, "I didn't mean to leave the bar and get behind the wheel. I really didn't. I didn't mean to get behind the wheel after having some adult beverages." See if that works for you. And if you're saying it's not the same thing, yes, it is.

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

Martha Stewart was found guilty on all charges. You know what that means, stripes are in this year.

If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks? Trains don't normally sneak up on people. Unless they've derailed, you pretty much know where to find them.

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.