Thieves Quotes - Page 8

• Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hate, Forever

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• On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips. Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Heart, Dark

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• For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Two, People, Purpose

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Principles, Punctuality

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories".

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• Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

  Markus Zusak

  Summer, Book, Color

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.342, RH Childrens Books

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• This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Liars, Bird

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

  Lord Byron

  Mean, Love Is, People

  "Don Juan". Poem by Lord Byron, 1818-1824.

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• I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.

  Christopher Pike

  Dark, Light, Sun

  Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

  Rick Riordan

  Sea, Monsters, Lightning

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• In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Night, Men

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.101, A&C Black

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• For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Heretic

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• Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Motivational, Courage, Pain

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• But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression, anger or pain. He loved people back to life. He would go anywhere, talk to anyone. And wherever He went, He would stop for the one-- the forgotten one, the one who was rejected, outcast, sick, even stone dead. Even a thief who was dying for his crimes on the cross next to Him. In the Kingdom of God's love there is no sinner who cannot come home.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Pain, Home

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• Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dog, Weather, Justice

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• My goodness, you're 60 already, already
  Time is a thief
  But still, you're only as old as your tongue
  And a little bit older than your teeth
  Have a wonderful birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Teeth, Littles

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• Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Sex, Kissing

  "Rewards of Passion: Sheer Poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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• Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by discerning what is wrong, what is ugly, what is distorted. Christ looked at everyone he met, at the prostitute, at the thief, and saw the beauty hidden there. Perhaps it was distorted, perhaps damaged, but it was beauty none the less, and what he did was to call out this beauty.

  Anthony of Sourozh

  Spiritual, Inner Beauty, True Beauty

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• An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

  Ibn Majah

  Positive, Adultery, Stealing

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• The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.

  Confucius

  Courage, Men, Justice

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• Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

  Paul Bowles

  Writing, Sides, Barricades

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• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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• I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, New York, Father

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

  Facundo Cabral

  Property, Private Property, Ifs

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