A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.
I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.
To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.
In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.
I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.
'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
Mr. Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.
When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.
Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
In a perfect world, Joshua‟s vertically gifted murderer would‟ve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would‟ve announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god‟s country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
