Rob Quotes - page 2

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness. (Terry Eagleton)
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
[T]he class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7). View quote
John Calvin
Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you. View quote
Dylan Moran
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much that he can't get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies. View quote
William Faulkner
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians. View quote
Bobby Fischer
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend. View quote
Thucydides
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. View quote
Sitting Bull
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there... (William Golding)
The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was lord below. View quote
William Wordsworth
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. View quote
Richard Ford
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes. View quote
Joel Chandler Harris
At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly." View quote
Brian Eno
It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums. View quote
Larry McMurtry
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. View quote
Günter Brus
One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible. View quote
Mike Tyson
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation. (Neal Shusterman)
Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time. View quote
Robert Wagner
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. View quote
Phyllis Diller
So how do you know him? (Shahara) I knocked on his door one day and said, ‘Hi, I'm here to rob you. Hope you don't mind. Oh, and by the way, will you be my friend?' (Syn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do. View quote
Barbara Coloroso