Quotes of: Crooks Keyword

The dog's tail, even if buried for twelve years, will remain as crooked as ever.

Indian

He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.

Chinese

He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.

Danish

"Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing," said the pig to the horse.

Russian

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons/The Adventure of the Crooked Man

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him.

The Crooked God Machine

His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter whi...

This Crooked Way

People who are humble about their own nature are moral realists. Moral realists are aware that we are all built from “crooked timber”— from Immanuel Kant’s famous line, “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made...

David Brooks

He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.

This Crooked Way

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent exis...

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.

As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse

Instead of being a gift that separates us from the animals, free will has become my gaoler. Junkies are the ultimate outsider, not only are we outside of society: we are outside of nature. I spit, turn, and wander towards the beach. Heroin gave me wi...

The Crooked Beat

If I could turn my thoughts into spoken words and share them with someone, they’d become real and mean something. Now, they were only lines that could be erased when I didn’t feel them anymore or hopeful thoughts that, like shadows, would disappe...

Crooked Lines

I never met a gal who represented a mystery to me in quite the fetchin' way you did. It'd be dull and dreary just to find out how a crook got in and out of a locked room to steal a gold-and-jewelled cup. But it's very rummy, and fascinates the old ma...

The Cavalier's Cup

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

W.H. Auden

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

Latif Mercado

I am not a crook.

Richard M. Nixon

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

David Mamet

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experime...

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas