Thieves Quotes - Page 24

• The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

  Walter E. Williams

  Differences, Stealing, Congressman

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• Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

  John Steinbeck

  Business, Lying, Important

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.95, Hamilton Books

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• A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

  Khalil Gibran

  Liars, Men, Needs

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

  Martial

  Creative, Pages, Creative Process

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• I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

  Wilkie Collins

  Father, Garden, Hands

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.3350, Delphi Classics

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• A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Funny, Country, Believe

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• Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Might

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• On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

  John Mark McMillan

  Friday, Jesus, Kings

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• The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

  George W. Plunkitt

  Opportunity, Men, Political

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• A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how we see ourselves determines how we live... A destructive label leads to a destructive life. There is a soul thief, a dark enemy, who wants to nail ruinous labels to your heart so that he can steal your life. Jesus wants to give you life giving labels that release your potential for the good of the world.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Tattoo, Jesus, Heart

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• The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

  Tahir Shah

  Fire, Ghouls, Skeletons

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.

  Laozi

  Circles, People, Justice

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• in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

  Yosa Buson

  Garden, Vegetables, Feelings

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• That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

  Bud Abbott

  Stars, Europe, Guy

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

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• You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Done, Lovers, Murder

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• Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the-ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ocean, Eye, Reality

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.312, Random House

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• Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

  Roberto Bolano

  Jesus, Believe, Soul

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• One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

  Sterling W Sill

  Procrastination, Criminals, World

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• Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sacrifice, Giving, Degrees

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• No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and indispensable necessity, like repentance, faith, and conversion. But it is impossible to say that any professing Christian is in a safe, healthy, or satisfactory condition of soul, who habitually refuses to obey Christ and attend the Lord's Table.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Men, Healthy

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.286, Whitaker House

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• The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

  PLO Lumumba

  Tragedy, Saint

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Liars, Criminals, Crooks

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• Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

  James Lee Burke

  Clever, Loss, Age

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• Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

  John William Draper

  Science, Kepler, Cost

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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