Thieves Quotes - Page 13

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

Markus Zusak

Book, Careers, Firsts

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After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

Nicholas Sparks

Long, Waiting, Bells

Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.159, Hachette UK

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We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

Jorge Luis Borges

Night, Treasure, Day And Night

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O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

William Shakespeare

Jugglers

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.326

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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

Warrior, Goal, Moles

Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.118, Penguin

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Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I am in my god's hands. He will keep me safe, or he will not, here or on the stairs.

Megan Whalen Turner

Fall, Hands, Safety

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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liars, Sleep, Dust

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through. ***TWO QUESTIONS*** Would the gates shut behind her? Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out? As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck. Actually. Forget the ten minutes. The gates open now.

Markus Zusak

Two, Luck, Important

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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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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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Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Rumi

Focus, Action, Values

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.140, Shambhala Publications

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What a deformed thief this fashion is.

William Shakespeare

Fashion, Memorable

1598 Borachio to Conrad. Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc.3, l.126-9.

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The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus, Easter, Lying

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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

Shoes, People, World

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I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift,
I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

Diamond D

Rap, Men, Doubt

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Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

Political, Liberty, Principles

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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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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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Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.

Pink

Heart, My Heart

Song: Pink Just Give Me A Reason, Album: The Truth About Love

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The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

Megan Whalen Turner

Point Break, Gunpowder, Flash

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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

Henry Grady Weaver

Mean, Views, Agony

Henry Grady Weaver (2016). “The Mainspring of Human Progress [Revised Edition]”, p.38, Pickle Partners Publishing

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This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.

Stokely Carmichael

Country, Mean, Blood

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Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.

Jesse Kellerman

Icons, Thought Provoking, Roaring

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On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

Andrea Dworkin

Self, Expression, Feminist

Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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