Thieves Quotes - Page 5

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

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

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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

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

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.