Accused Quotations

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.

I am being accused of all this plastic surgery, which is absolutely not true.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.

Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

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.

I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.

I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

Wearing baggy clothes makes me look shorter. I just don't know anything about fashion. I know what I like wearing. I'm always accused that I wear too much black. I love wearing black.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears U.S. government defenders referring to 'terrorists' when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.

In high fashion, we're always accused of doing things that are not very relevant, not the real world. I know that it's important sometimes to do fantasy, but I felt like touching people and going back to different women and men, especially the idea of different ages and body shapes.

From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!

I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him.

I was surprised by the comments made by Sean Davis. To be accused of deliberately going into a challenge in an attempt to cause damage is absolutely sickening.

Nobody likes to be accused of something as horrible as that.

O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once youve brought breakfast in bed youll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Of course there's extra pressure. I've not slept for five nights worrying about the things that I've been accused of.

No one can find any words that I have spoken to you or anyone else that constitutes a threat to you or anyone else. Suffice it to say that I have been accused of making threats before. It goes with the nature of the position that I hold.

No one has spoken to Andy and that begs a question about communication. I found it strange that you reduce the squad from 60 to 30 and do not phone people who are not in it and tell them why. If we did something like that to people we would be accused of mismanagement.

Nobody has been accused and no proceedings have been opened nor are they about to be.

No doubt we will once more be accused of disruption but ... the blame once again lies squarely with management trying to impose rather than negotiate.

Now we find that the government concluded some 25 years ago that what our clients are being accused of today was not improper.

Phil better take notice. If he wants to try to replicate the Roberti campaign of 1994, he's up against a team that knows how to fight back. I've been accused of a lot of things, but not being willing to fight back isn't one of them.

Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one of us can keep our mouth shut.

I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, not for politicians and Jalal should know better than that. Why should he make a statement on the accused to the public? The court, the judge need to decide on this.

Leaks like that to the press may cause people to be accused falsely in the papers. It's a despicable way to run a DA's office.

We're not conceding anything at this point. He probably feels the way anybody would who is accused of terrible things and thrown in a jail cell.

She quit after she was accused of taking the money,

She's accused the mayor of really unconscionable acts. She can't expect not to have her own actions scrutinized.

So I advised him then that if he had the courage and the heart to do it that he should go to the court and should reveal in detail, just as he had done to me, ... His purpose in having this conversation with me was to decide what he could do publicly to exonerate these two boys who were accused in his place.

Sikirica as camp commander is accused of genocide, violation of laws and custom of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention as well as being criminally responsible for the acts of subordinates in committing murder, torture, inhuman acts and crimes against humanity,

I have been accused by the press of being too direct, too blatant, too clear in my initiatives for the last four years. The fact of the matter is this is something I believe in.

knowing whether or not the accused spy is really going to cooperate.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

I feel that I have done nothing wrong and I feel that many people have come out and accused me in public ... I feel disgusted for what they said about me,

I can't imagine a worse nightmare ... than being accused of criminal activity you did not do.

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

For the work I've done, I've been accused of being so selfless, but I have to correct that: I'm probably the most selfish man you'll ever meet in life, because no one gets the satisfaction or joy that I get in seeing kids realize there is hope.

I have accused L.B. Management of failing to report to me, and I've told L.B. Management the money is missing, and it could very well be embezzled.

have a chilling effect on the willingness of competent lawyers to vigorously defend the accused in these cases.

Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

What worries me about this whole case is that you had a man who did the right thing, who was a good police office who saved lives, who then answered the relentless media inquiries that follow such a thing like this with good humor and good grace and good sense. And now he's being accused of being a bomber.

If we allow that to happen, then in essence we'll be doing the same thing we accused Saddam Hussein of doing. We'll just be substituting one tyranny for another.

He has accused me of being a killer. Now if he has the guts, he should come back to serve his prison sentence as convicted.

Historically, you have lot of great content minds at Disney and Viacom and all the media conglomerates. But there's also been a big hesitation to try new things, and there's been a lot of inertia at the big media companies. One thing I don't think anyone has accused Steve Jobs of is inertia.

The pact has the flaw that the accused are their own judges, so they really like the defendants. The ECB is here meting out the task of dispensing justice to the private ratings agencies.

He's hasn't been allowed to defend himself. That's what we do in America. We give people -- no matter what they're accused of -- we give them their day in court.

Unless things get way out of hand with all the negative junk and he gets accused of being a terrorist or something, Bill will run a campaign that says here's what I've done and here's what my opponent has done. I couldn't tell you one thing Katherine Harris has done in office or stands for or would do in the Senate.

He said his girlfriend accused him of eyeballing the clerk on duty at a liquor store in the 1200 block of State Street where the victim had gone to buy his girlfriend some balloons.

He is accused and has pleaded guilty to acting as an agent for North Korea; he was not accused or charged with espionage. In order for us to prove a case involving espionage, there's certain legal criteria that must be met.

He is not accused of selling it. He's not accused of driving around in a vehicle with it.

He feels he has lost his career as a field tech, ... The charges are still pending. He cannot travel internationally. He feels he lost his whole career because he was falsely accused as a spy.

Keep small fires small and knock them down. We will attack fires with everything we've got. I don't mind if we're accused of going overboard.

My whole life has been dedicated to music. And of course, I've been accused a million times of playing too fast or too many notes, and I'm sure justifiably sometimes. But, you know, I'm the way I am and as we grow old, we learn and I'm still learning about space. But I'll be learning about space until I die.

People are actually losing comprehension of what's going on. People are coming because they have a crush A person has been accused of a crime, killing two people.

I think this is an extremely positive step that the high court has taken by admitting the appeal and by ensuring that the accused do not leave the country.

I think it would be irresponsible not to at least revisit these previous matters and find out if this accused does have anything to do with them.

Laskar Jundullah has also been accused of providing arms in Poso. It's a breakdown of law and order. And I think the fact that you've got a large unaccountable militia should be of concern not only to the Indonesian government but of deep concern to governments outside as well.

It is clear that many top GOP leaders cannot bring themselves to offer a spirited defense of marriage for fear of being accused of bigotry by Democrats and their allies among homosexual activists,