Thief Quotes - page 9

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. View quote
Dick Armey
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
To be a poet is to be a visitor on a distant shore until one dies. In the land where I belong, but which I shall never reach, individuals have no cares, and that is because industry runs by itself without anyone trying to steal from others. My land is a land of plenty; it is the world that Nature has given to mankind, where society is not a thieves' society, where the children aren't sickly but healthy and contented, and young men and women can fulfill their aspirations because it is natural to do so. In my world it is possible to fulfill all aspirations, and therefore all aspirations are in themselves good, quite unlike here, where people's aspirations are called wicked because it isn't possible to fulfill them. View quote
Halldór Laxness
When's there ever been a decent saint who didn't start out as a thief? View quote
Halldór Laxness
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. View quote
Bono
The man who has stolen in order never to thieve again remains a thief. Nobody who has ever betrayed his principles can have a pure relationship with life. Therefore when a film-maker says he will produce a pot-boiler in order to give himself the strength and the means to make the film of his dreams - that is so much deception, or worse, self-deception. He will never now make his film. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast. View quote
Isaac Newton
On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. (Laurence J. Peter)
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working? View quote
Stewart Brand
Who are the greedy? Those who are not satisfied with what suffices for their own needs. Who are the robbers? Those who take for themselves what rightfully belongs to everyone. And you, are you not greedy? Are you not a robber? The things you received in trust as a stewardship, have you not appropriated them for yourself? Is not the person who strips another of clothing called a thief? And those who do not clothe the naked when they have the power to do so, should they not be called the same? The bread you are holding back is for the hungry, the clothes you keep put away are for the naked, the shoes that are rotting away with disuse are for those who have none, the silver you keep buried in the earth is for the needy. You are thus guilty of injustice toward as many as you might have aided, and did not. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves. View quote
Abel Ferrara
I turned to Thalia. ‘I'll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?' She sighed. ‘Fine. Let's go catch this jerk. View quote
Rick Riordan
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams. View quote
Richard Paul Evans
Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. View quote
Sara Gruen
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
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. View quote
Francine Rivers
Do you know why a vandal is worse than a thief?' asked the man on the right, in a soft growl. ‘A thief steals a treasure from its owner. A vandal steals it from the world. View quote
Frances Hardinge
Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers. (Charles Duhigg)
My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it. View quote
Shaun Tan
My favorite movie ever is Bicycle Thieves. View quote
Jennifer Morrison
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn! View quote
Josh Hartnett
What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man. View quote
Donna Woolfolk Cross