Thieves Quotes - Page 9

• We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

  Ovid

  Care, May, Guarded

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• Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Horse, Hands

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

  Criss Jami

  Victimhood

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.36, Criss Jami

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• When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Boys, People, Judging

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• Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.

  Barry Hannah

  Love You, And Love, Might

  Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.334, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

  Andre Braugher

  Wise, Father, Feels

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• And rely on Him with 100 percent of your faith for 100 percent of your life throughout 100 percent of your tomorrows. He will give you a peace no thief can ever steal.

  David Jeremiah

  Giving, Tomorrow, Stealing

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• The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Eras, Economic

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Peter Abelard

  Son, Compassion, Two

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• In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

  Abel Ferrara

  Honor, Film, Honor Among Thieves

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

  Tony Hillerman

  Attitude, Two, Mind

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• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  Etgar Keret

  Fun, Grateful, Writing

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• My favorite movie ever is Bicycle Thieves.

  Jennifer Morrison

  My Favorite, Bicycle

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

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• Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

  Jethro Tull

  Men, Hands, Would Be

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• I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Party, Thinking

  "Net Impact". Interview with Julia Ioffe, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

  Julianna Baggott

  Motivation, Writing, Giving

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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Arrows

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• I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe the Sharia should be implemented in Denmark. Maybe we should change the Christiansborg Palace [the Danish Parliament building] to Muslimsborg to have the flag of Islam flying over the parliament in Denmark. I think this would be very nice.

  Anjem Choudary

  Nice, Believe, Cutting

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• The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Saving, Lasts, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 73), 1895.

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• I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

  Johan Cruijff

  Want, Wallets, My Own

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• I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, New York, Father

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Sex, Kissing

  "Rewards of Passion: Sheer Poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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• Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dog, Weather, Justice

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• I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Liars, Lying, Believe

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• If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Journey, Men, Looks

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

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