Crooked Quotes - Page 4

• If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

  Dana Cowin

  Struggle, Apples, Looks

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

  Arthur Miller

  Distance, Two, Evil

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• In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

  Stephen Leacock

  Women, Average, Moral

  Stephen Leacock, Alan Bowker (1973). “The social criticism of Stephen Leacock”

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• To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, May, Faces

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.510, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

  Jack Steinberger

  Noses, Faces, Hateful

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• Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Honesty, Smart, Stupid

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• Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
  Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
  Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Light, Purpose

  Allen Ginsberg (1963). “Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960: Pocket Poets Number 18”, p.62, City Lights Books

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• Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

  David Harsanyi

  Political, Mysterious, Turns

  "The Libertarian Case for Palin" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2008.

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• My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

  Kam Williams

  Taken, Lobbyists, Politician

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• Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Never Trust

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

  John Lyly

  Roots, Tree

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press

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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 do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

  Stephen King

  Four, Wheels, Upstairs

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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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• In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

  William Saroyan

  People, Events, Ridiculous

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

  John Updike

  Children, Tomatoes, Paper

  John Updike (2007). “The Witches of Eastwick”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Business, Mean

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• The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.

  Orison S. Marden

  Strong, Cutting, Men

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• To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Eye, Goal, Generosity

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• Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

  Jan Morris

  Venice, Over You, Domes

  1960 Venice.

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• Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

  Kristen Ashley

  Men, Feminist, Care

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• We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Thinking, Lines

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• After her came jolly June, arrayed
  All in green leaves, as he a player were;
  Yet in his time he wrought as well as played,
  That by his plough-irons mote right well appear.
  Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear,
  With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace,
  And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare,
  Bending their force contrary to their face;
  Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Player, June

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• Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Praying, Born

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