Top 31 Crookedness Quotes

#1. How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#2. You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

Robert Fulghum

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#3. There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

John Wooden

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#4. Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

Charlie Munger

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#5. Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.

Sivananda

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#6. ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib.

Samuel Johnson

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#7. I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

Shashi Tharoor

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#8. When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You won't know they aren't your thoughts. Soon you will be fully possessed.

Frederick Lenz

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#9. Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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#10. Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

Allen Ginsberg

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#11. Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

Jeff Greenfield

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#12. Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#13. The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

Brian Tracy

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#14. The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

Gottlob Frege

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#15. Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Alistair Cooke

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#16. There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

Jenny Offill

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#17. The great spectacle of human crookedness. It keeps coming at you from all sides, and whether you like it or not, it's the most interesting show in town.

Paul Auster

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#18. Joan Finch is tall and sickly thin. She is wearing a tight black dress that accentuates her bony legs, the crookedness of her body. She looks like a burnt matchstick.

Jerrod Edson

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#19. I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?

Rabindranath Tagore

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#20. Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.

Noel Alumit

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#21. Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

Henry David Thoreau

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#22. Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

Albert Einstein

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#23. When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#24. The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

Thomas Traherne

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#25. Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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#26. Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

Sivananda

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#27. I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

Billy Gibbons

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#28. Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#29. Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

Xaviera Hollander

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#30. The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Elisabeth Elliot

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#31. The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Abraham Verghese

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