Thieves Quotes - Page 18

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

Nice, People, Use

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And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy is not better known in anything than in pardoning a Dismas (the traditional name of the good thief) on the Cross and a Dominicus Corea on the gallows. If in Hell there is room for sinners, in Heaven also there is room for penitents.

Dominicus Corea

Fall, Names, Heaven

The last address of King Dominicus Corea on the gallows in Colombo before he was executed by the Portugues; as quoted in "Great Sinhalese Men and Women of History - Edirille Bandara (Domingos Corea)" by John M. Senaveratna, 1937.

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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

Elizabeth Lesser

Moments, Stealing, Sneaky

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The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict."

Ilana Mercer

Sex, Disease, Bills

"One Man's Malady, Another Man's Fetish". www.wnd.com. August 04, 2006.

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In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

Petrus Borel

Two, Paris, Dens

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Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.

Joan Lunden

Nice, Moments, Stealing

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Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

Caitlin Thomas

Sex, Love Is, Dignity

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[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

Whoopi Goldberg

People, Want, Monologues

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For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

Edna O'Brien

Writing, Littles, Way

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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

Sappho

Gold, Dawn, Sandals

Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

Katherine Anne Porter

Country, Liars, Law

Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.126, Open Road Media

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We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

Wendy Kaminer

Cutting, Hands, Death Penalty

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My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.

Marita Golden

Mother, Reading, Writing

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I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.

Robert Charles Wilson

Self, Justice, Causes

"Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Receiving, Parasites, Labor

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.98, Cosimo Classics

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Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

Billy Collins

Mean, Home, Trying

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Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation.

Salman Rushdie

Country, Gifted Writers, Portraits

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Peter S. Beagle

Dream, History, Honor

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On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

Helen Kieran Reilly

Horse, Kindness, Gay

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Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in useless talk and go to bed late, you are likely to lose your valuables and your reputation as well. Save the firing and the light that will be wasted by staying up late and get up at four in the morning. Have a cold bath and say your prayers, and after you have dressed, give your orders for the day to your wife and children and retainers and so be ready to go on duty before 6 [a.m.]

Hojo Soun

Morning, Prayer, Children

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I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

Michael Ian Black

Character, Warrior, Opportunity

"Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

Leona Helmsley

Children, Liars, Lying

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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?

Stewart Brand

Block, House, Greek

"Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

Flora Thompson

Liars, Lying, Locks

Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.216, David R. Godine Publisher

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Callimachus

Crime

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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