Crooked Quotes - Page 6

• These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cat, House, Lines

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.69, Penguin

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• I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

  Jane Seymour

  Smile, Eye, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rivers, Path

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• I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Complaining, Littles, Bent

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.340, Hachette UK

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• Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Selfish, Men, Church

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.265, Applewood Books

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• And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

  Mitch Albom

  Men, Heaven, Secret

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

  Black Elk

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sarcastic, Safety Pins, Used

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.249, Open Road Media

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• I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Thinking, Hitting

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Boston, Years

  Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”

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• Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

  Ray Davies

  Social Unrest, Trying, Unemployment

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• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

  John Locke

  Truth, Science, Men

  John Locke (1706). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books”, p.591

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• When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth, or veins in their skin that are a little too visible, or a really dramatic lazy eye. The first guy I ever kissed had a water head.

  Amy Sedaris

  Beautiful, Eye, Water

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.

  George Will

  Writing, People, Political

  "Religion and the American Republic". www.nationalaffairs.com. Summer 2013.

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• When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd- but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find its way into other hearts.

  Sark

  Dream, Song, Heart

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• ... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Ugly, Matter, Love And Forgiveness

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.316, Destiny Image Publishers

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• There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

  Edouard Manet

  Eye, Differences, Portraiture

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Heart, Errors

  "Proverbial Philosophy (Of Truth in Things False)". Book by Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1839.

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• But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Laughter, Philosophy, Men

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• Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

  Plotinus

  Cutting, Light, Perfect

  Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.47, Hayes Barton Press

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• It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.

  Ludacris

  Pain, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Hopeless, Album: Red Light District

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• If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Television

  Song: Afraid, Album: Heathen, 2002

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• One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Home, Men, Boston

  Sam Walter Foss, “The Calf-Path”

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• God draws straight with crooked lines.

  Andrew Greeley

  Catholic, Lines, Draws

  Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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