Conflict of Interest Quotes

“Her primary psychological defense mechanisms were sarcasm and dark humor, usually ladled out with a thick dollop of profanity on top.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“kitchen with her back to me. As she lifted a cup to her lips, I knocked softly on the door. She froze for a few seconds before setting the cup slowly back down on the”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“I’d been a staunch opponent of the death penalty early in my career, but as I’d aged, my attitude had changed, largely because I’d come to believe that some of the people I’d represented and prosecuted over the years were both incorrigible and unsalvageable. I’d seen so much violence, so much cruelty, and so little regard for basic human decency that I could no longer summon empathy for people like Ernest Shanks.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“This dumbing down of the American culture is a pity, isn’t it? The print tabloids have been around for a long time, but now we have tabloid television and reality television and online news organizations. There seems to be an endless supply of meaninglessness and sensationalism that has turned out to be quite profitable for the purveyors. It doesn’t say”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“World War I and World War II, we needed to be there, I suppose. But all these little wars in between: Korea, Vietnam, twice in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, even Grenada. Were those places we really needed to be? Old men keep sending young men off to kill or be killed in foreign lands while they spew their platitudes about duty and honor and freedom and loyalty, and all the while the gap between the rich and the poor in our own country continues to widen and jobs get shipped overseas and education continues to falter and it seems to me that all of this killing and being killed comes down to one thing. Greed. It’s all about greed. It’s ultimately meaningless for everyone except the ones who make money off the bloodshed.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“World War I and World War II, we needed to be there, I suppose. But all these little wars in between: Korea, Vietnam, twice in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, even Grenada. Were those places we really needed to be? Old men keep sending young men off to kill or be killed in foreign lands while they spew their platitudes about duty and honor and freedom and loyalty, and all the while the gap between the rich and the poor in our own country continues to widen and jobs get shipped overseas and education continues to falter and it seems to me that all of this killing and being killed comes down to one thing. Greed. It’s all about greed. It’s ultimately meaningless for everyone except the ones who make money off the bloodshed.” She turned her head and looked at me, a slight smile forming at the corners of her mouth. “Did you lubricate your jaw before you came in here?” she said. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard you say that many words without stopping in my entire life.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“stray dog or a cat?” “Maybe. Kids like water. Maybe she came around front and went to play by the creek.” A small creek ran all the way through town about a half block from Main Street. It cut right through the Monroes’ front yard. “There are people all around the creek, Caroline. If she was there, somebody would have found her.” Not only were there people all around the creek, there were people everywhere. The news about Lindsay was out, and”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“I was reminded of Prometheus, the mythical Titan who stole fire from the gods. Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock on a mountain side. During the first night, an eagle came and ripped out Prometheus’s liver. It grew back the next day, but the following night, and every night thereafter for eternity, the eagle would return and Prometheus would have to endure the terrible pain of having his liver torn from his body. The only difference between Prometheus and me was that my heart was being torn out instead of my liver.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“There’s nothing we can do to change the past,” she said. “All we can do is try to manage the present as best we can.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“I’d learned over the years that dwelling on the past was as useless as fretting over the future.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“Old men keep sending young men off to kill or be killed in foreign lands while they spew their platitudes about duty and honor and freedom and loyalty, and all the while the gap between the rich and the poor in our own country continues to widen and jobs get shipped overseas and education continues to falter and it seems to me that all of this killing and being killed comes down to one thing. Greed. It’s all about greed. It’s ultimately meaningless for everyone except the ones who make money off the bloodshed.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“thought about the capacity people have to forgive, and how powerful a force love can be if people will just let it into their lives.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“World War I and World War II, we needed to be there, I suppose. But all these little wars in between: Korea, Vietnam, twice in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, even Grenada. Were those places we really needed to be? Old men keep sending young men off to kill or be killed in foreign lands while they spew their platitudes about duty and honor and freedom and loyalty, and all the while the gap between the rich and the poor in our own country continues to widen and jobs get shipped overseas and education continues to falter and it seems to me that all of this killing and being killed comes down to one thing. Greed.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“At forty-five, even after everything she’d been through with the cancer treatments, even after bearing two children and putting up with me for twenty-five years, she was still the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. Her wavy, auburn hair still shined, her skin was soft and clear, and her figure hadn’t changed since high school.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

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― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“Wilson, a man who had”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“Old men keep sending young men off to kill or be killed in foreign lands while they spew their platitudes about duty and honor and freedom and loyalty, and all the while the gap between the rich and the poor in our own country continues to widen and jobs get shipped overseas and education continues to falter and it seems to me that all of this killing and being killed comes down to one thing. Greed.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“I thought about the capacity people have to forgive, and how powerful a force love can be if people will just let it into their lives.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“he’s been in the trenches, but you have this incredibly strong urge to tell him to go screw”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest