Holdups Quotes

#1. Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and holdups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the best place to spend the whole thing is a Moslem country.

Patrick Dennis

#2. I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.

Charles Bukowski

#3. To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants ... Life has become impossible.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#4. Your body isn't really yours, Jackie boy. Your body is mine and I'm claiming squatter's rights.

Jonathan Dunne

#5. You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Seneca The Younger

#6. This is not the case. I find scant evidence in my nonfiction that I have matured at all. I cannot find a single idea I hadn't swiped from somebody else and enunciated plonkingly by the time I reached the seventh grade.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#7. Why does forgiveness irritate me so much?" I ask Chuck.
"Because it's the ultimate act of passive aggression," he says.
"Because it keeps sin alive," says my sister.

Abigail Thomas

#8. The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Aleister Crowley

#9. Sycorax has grown into a hoop

William Shakespeare

#10. Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

George W. Bush

#11. Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature:

Stephen R. Covey

#12. Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

Karl A. Menninger

#13. I am a cookbook fanatic.

Samantha Bee