Thieves Quotes - Page 13

• The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Escaping, Law, Chance

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.65, M.E. Sharpe

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• What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.

  Frank Loesser

  New York, Thinking, Miracle

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• It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

  Ben Affleck

  Running, Childhood, Midnight

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• The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Cutting, Sea

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• Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gang

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• All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Cousin, Stealing, Whole Family

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• I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

  James Franco

  Ironic, Juniors, Junior High

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Bags, Determined, Birmingham

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. 
  (in Thief of Time)

  Terry Pratchett

  Football, Everything Happens For A Reason, England

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• You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

  Hesiod

  Hesiod (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.147, JHU Press

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• If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Art, Doe

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• If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

  Idries Shah

  Progress, Murderer, Turns

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• An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

  Luke Scott

  Athlete, Law, Jail

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• In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Scandal, Cases, Robbery

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.106, Oxford University Press

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• The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Ems

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “North to the Rails: A Novel”, p.16, Bantam

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• I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Ideas, Despair

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• WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Wall, Heaven

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

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• The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.' Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.

  Walter E. Williams

  Running, Father, Lines

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• "You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on "honor among thieves," and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a "code for the road."

  Price Pritchett

  Country, Jobs, War

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• Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Eye, Glasses, Hands

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• Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.

  Pink

  Heart, My Heart

  Song: Pink Just Give Me A Reason, Album: The Truth About Love

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• We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

  Bennett Madison

  Ends, Borrowers

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• The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. "My trees," they said, "you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff." You call us thieves, but at least a thief has t' be brave and clever and quick. A kneeler only has t' kneel.

  George R. R. Martin

  Daughter, Kings, Clever

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1914, Bantam

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• When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Peace, Money

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• On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Self, Expression, Feminist

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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