quotes about Thieves
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
-- Ally CarterSource : Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.92, Hachette UK
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They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
-- Andre BraugherSource : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.
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You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
-- Andrew Jackson -
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The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonaldSource : Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.358, Vintage Canada
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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.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
-- Aristophanes -
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
-- Aristotle -
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Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.
-- Barry HannahSource : Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.334, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
-- Ben Kingsley -
We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.
-- Bennett Madison -
I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'
-- Billy Graham -
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No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
-- Bob Dylan -
There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...
-- Bob Dylan -
Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
-- Bob Hastings -
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
-- Brent Spiner -
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Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal,
-- Brian Jacques -
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.
-- Brigham Young -
A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
-- Buddy Rich -
Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
-- CallimachusSource : Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.207, London : H.G. Bohn
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Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.
-- Caroline Manzo -
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
-- Charles DickensSource : 'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 417
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
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I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
-- Charles PortisSource : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.73, A&C Black
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Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
-- Christopher PikeSource : Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
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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.
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The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.
-- Clarence Day -
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The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.
-- Clay Shirky -
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
-- Criss Jami -
Pleasure is a thief to business.
-- Daniel DefoeSource : 'The Complete English Tradesman' (1725) vol. 1
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We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.
-- Daniel Defoe -
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It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.
-- Derek R. Audette -
Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.
-- Diogenes -
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
-- Douglas Coupland -
While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.
-- Elif Safak -
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
-- Elizabeth Forsythe HaileySource : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.89, Penguin
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.
-- Erik Naggum -
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
-- Ernestine Rose -
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If I am a thief, it's because of private property.
-- Facundo Cabral -
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
-- Fidel Castro -
You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.
-- Flora ThompsonSource : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.216, David R. Godine Publisher
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Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.
-- Frances HardingeSource : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.104, Pan Macmillan
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We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.
-- Francine RiversSource : Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.
-- Francis Quarles -
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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 -
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There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
-- Geoffrey GraySource : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.
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Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.
-- George Carlin -
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did
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There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.
-- Henry George -
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!
-- Honore de Balzac -
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
-- Horace -
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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 -
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
-- Idries Shah -
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According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,' and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a 'sex-addict.
-- Ilana Mercer -
Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
-- Jackson Pollock -
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
-- James Belushi -
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On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.
-- James Richardson -
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
-- James Russell Lowell -
punctuality is the thief of adventure ...
-- Jan StrutherSource : Jan Struther (1938). “Try anything twice: essays and sketches”
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
-- Jean Genet -
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Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
-- Jeff TweedySource : "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.
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My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.
-- Jennifer Morrison -
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 -
Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?
-- Jethro Tull -
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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?
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Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
-- Jimmy Breslin -
Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.
-- Joan Lunden -
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I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
-- Johan Cruijff -
A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
-- John Andreas Widtsoe -
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
-- John Fante -
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
-- John Gunther -
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Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
-- John Hagee -
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 -
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 -
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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 DraperSource : John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub
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He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
-- Jose Marti -
The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
-- Karl Kraus -
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Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
-- Kate Atkinson -
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
-- Katherine Anne Porter -
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
-- Khalil -
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
-- L. Frank BaumSource : L. Frank Baum (2008). “8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 2 of 2. Little Wizard Stories of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow Of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Lost Princess Of Oz,”, p.388, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
-- Laozi -
I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.
-- Larry David -
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -