Thieves Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Done, World

  Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Time, Self, Former

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.89, Penguin

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• The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

  Clay Shirky

  Burden Of Proof, Bills, Internet

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• Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Land, Safety, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2008). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.105, Zondervan

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• The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Giving, Criminals

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Law, Anarchy, Crime

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

  Terry Pratchett

  Artist, Special, Nails

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• Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

  Ogden Nash

  Love Is, Gold, And Love

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• Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

  Charles Stanley

  Mean, Adversity, Hands

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.115, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

  Seneca the Younger

  Egypt, Pleasure, Embrace

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• Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fun, Procrastination, Ambition

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• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

  Thomas More

  People, Suffering, Firsts

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.24, Bibliolis Books

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• Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Procrastination, Opportunity, Wretched

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a year and -- using them -- I wrote the first draft of The Thieves of Ostia in two weeks. I go back to his teachings before each new book I write. Each time I study Truby, I learn something new.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Book, Teaching, Writing

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• To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul . . . because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Country, Children, Hypocrite

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• Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God is preposterous enough to accept as beautiful a coloring that anyone else would reject as ugly. The grace of God sees beyond the scribbling to the heart of the scribbler - a scribbler who is similar to two thieves who hung on crosses on either side of Jesus. One of the two asked Jesus to please accept his scribbled and sloppy life into the kingdom of God and He did. Preposterous. And very good news for the rest of us scribblers.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Beautiful, Jesus, Heart

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• Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Names, Guilt

  Henry Fielding (1752). “Amelia: By Henry Fielding, Esq; In four volumes. ...”, p.44

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

  Holly Black

  Kind, Stolen, Equal

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.133, Hachette UK

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• A thief never makes a noise by accident.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Noise, Accidents

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• I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

  Eddie Vedder

  Liars, Son, My Son

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• I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.

  J. B. Smoove

  Opportunity, Stealing, Scene

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous.

  David Letterman

  Rubies, Wizards, Slippers

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• Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

  Steig Larsson

  Catchy, Oppurtunity

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• T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

  Robert Browning

  Kindness, Lasts, Christ

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.145, Oxford University Press on Demand

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