Thieves Quotes - Page 10

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.

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.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

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

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

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

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

Fate, I think, is a thief.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

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