Crooked Quotes - Page 9

• Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

  Immanuel Kant

  Humanity, Als, Made

  'Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht' (1784) proposition 6

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• If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

  Christie Watson

  Ifs

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• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Dare

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.358

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• The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Boss, Political

  "Platform Insincerity". The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 13, p. 660, July 27, 1912.

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• I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

  Joel Osteen

  Disappointment, Opportunity, People

  Joel Osteen (2012). “I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Years, People

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• Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Practice

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• I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

  Lauren Bacall

  Eyebrows, People, Teeth

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• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade
  For arms like yours were fitter now;
  And let the hands that ply the pen
  Quit the light task, and learn to wield
  The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
  The charger on the battle-field.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Light, Hands

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• What if thou be saint or sinner,
  Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,--
  Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
  When Death thee shall call.
  All like are rich or richer,
  King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
  When the grave hides all.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Death, Kings, What If

  RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

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• Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

  Ovid

  Years, Feet, Age

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• Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Hands, Royal

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• The slaves of custom and established mode,
  With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
  Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
  True to the jingling of our leader's bells.

  William Cowper

  Horse, Leader, Bells

  William Cowper (1785). “Poetical Works: With Notes and a Memoir”, p.207

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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?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Selfish, Church, Phases

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Howard (earl of Carlisle) (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.124

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cutting, Eyebrows, White

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.

  Scott Lynch

  Peace, Children, Night

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1253, Del Rey

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• Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

  Ann Aguirre

  Broken, Pieces, Sometimes

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

  Catherine Fisher

  Life, Queens, Moving

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.130, Penguin

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• Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Balance, Trying, Ada

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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• One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Wine, Bisexual, Thoughtful

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• Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

  Isaiah Berlin

  Humanity, Made, Timber

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• The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Powerful, Drug

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• Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Crazy, Mean

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• When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God.

  Heber J. Grant

  Looks, Lines, Path

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