Thieves Quotes - Page 27

• If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

  Jon Foreman

  Joy, Culture, Blind

  "Recording Is the Art of Forgetting - Enjoy Yourself" by Jon Foreman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Reform, Use

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• A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

  Zhuangzi

  Jail, Petty, Nations

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• You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Evil, House, May

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

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• Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.

  Thomas Hood

  Book

  Thomas Hood, Françis Freeling Broderip geb Hood “Works: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All Original Illustrations”

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• Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result.
  
  Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Stills

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

  John B

  Learning, Science, Men

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• I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

  Tony Bennett

  Taken, People, Research

  "The new cool cat on the block" by Dino Scatena, www.smh.com.au. April 16, 2004.

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• ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Men, Tribes

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.57, 谷月社

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• Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

  William Cowper

  Home, Purses, Wealth

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.129

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• There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

  Matthew Henry

  Bible, Despair, Bed

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• Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Israel, Land

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

  Aristophanes

  Two, Theft

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• Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

  Jim Rohn

  Waiting, Mind, Forget

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 26, 2017

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Data, Pirate

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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• If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

  Aesop

  Towns, Temples, Stealing

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• It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

  Austin O'Malley

  Writing, Mean, Successful

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• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

  John Jay Chapman

  Organization, Political, Politics

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

  James Belushi

  Car, World, Prison

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• Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Stealing, Authority

  1603 Angelo. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.181-2.

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• To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

  Petrus Borel

  Order, Ideas, Desire

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• I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that gets police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.

  David Letterman

  Home, Gun, Order

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• A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Reading, Government

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Justice, Suffering

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