Top 100 Quotes About Crooked
#1. I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.
Joel Osteen
#2. So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.
Helena Christensen
#3. Are you afraid I'm going to kick your ass? Because you seem to be holding back," I said. Ethan's lip curled. "That's not an answer," I said, "but it is a pretty good Elvis impersonation." I gestured him forward with a crooked finger.
Chloe Neill
#4. God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
Horace Mann
#5. I'm just a broken girl who's learned I can't walk the crooked path of this life.
Mary E. DeMuth
#6. Ronan laughed suddenly. That sound, as crooked and joyful and terrible as the dream in his hand, should have woken these cattle if nothing else did.
"I hear if you want magic done," he said, "you ask a magician.
Maggie Stiefvater
#7. The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.
Gerry Spence
#8. He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he's won the argument not because he is correct but because you can't outwit him.
Liezi
#9. I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#10. Perhaps you should consider your difficulty in getting past Wendlyn's naval defences to be a sign that you should stop playing at being a god."
"Playing?" The King smiled, his crooked teeth glowing yellow in the firelight. "I am not playing. And this is not a game.
Sarah J. Maas
#11. More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.
Barbara Swell
#12. In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
Paul Theroux
#13. Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
William Shakespeare
#14. He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#15. From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
Immanuel Kant
#16. Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are."
"Worse," Santi sighed.
Rachel Caine
#18. Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.
Hannah Hurnard
#20. This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
Theodore Roosevelt
#22. When we awoke he greeted me with his crooked smile, and I knew he was my knight.
Patti Smith
#23. No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
#25. In a crooked mind even the right thing gets crooked.
Arsenie Boca
#26. He does not depend on insider tips, crooked referees, or other sorts of hustles to make his bets. Nor does he have a "system" of any kind. He uses computer simulations, but does not rely upon them exclusively.
Nate Silver
#27. It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species.
Ilona Andrews
#28. A sheet of white extends to the lone dark vertical of the elm tree in the centre ... It is too perfect, to inviolate ... The snow is graced with waves written by the wind, the elm raises crooked arms in sleeves of white.
Haruki Murakami
#29. His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I'd put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.
Shelly Crane
#30. Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
Bruce Lee
#31. People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!
Mary Stewart
#32. You try to live straight in this crazy, crooked, mixed-up world - that's what's funny. You know what I mean?"
"I do, I do," I said.
"You don't even have to do anything especially funny. You just act normal. That alone looks strange and funny. Acting like that interests me.
Haruki Murakami
#33. By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
Eric Schneiderman
#34. For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.
Kristen Ashley
#36. At night, she slipped into the shelter of the boy's arms as they stood together on deck, picking out constellations from the vast spill of stars: the Hunter, the Scholar, the Three Foolish Sons, the bright spokes of the Spinning Wheel, the Southern Palace with its six crooked spires.
Leigh Bardugo
#37. The Crooked Man believed that whatever evil lay in men was there from the moment of their conception, and it was only a matter of discovering its nature in a child.
John Connolly
#38. I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger
#39. When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.
Jaejoong
#40. Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.
Marisha Pessl
#41. Something has gone crooked here; night is coming. Am I drawing close to the end? It almost feels like it - that there can't be much farther to go, having come so far already - and yet nothing feels finished.
Ally Condie
#42. The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
Jack Kirby
#43. 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
#44. 20Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
Anonymous
#45. I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.
Paul LePage
#47. Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#48. Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I?
Neil Gaiman
#49. You shall love your neighbour
With your crooked heart,
It says so much about love and brokenness
it's perfect.
John Green
#50. JEAN
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
HARRINGTON
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.
Preston Sturges
#51. People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.
Louis L'Amour
#52. Oscore is my favorite model," he says. "He has a very strange face. I don't know if you notice. God was very drunk when he made him. A little bit of this. A little bit of that. Brown eye. Green eye. Crooked nose, crooked mouth. Lunatic smile. Chipped tooth. Scar here, scar there. It is a puzzle.
Jandy Nelson
#54. Griffin's narrow, crooked smile held a hint of derision. "You are a romantic, then."
"No. Not at all. But I hold out hope that others might be.
Jo Goodman
#55. It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.
Ludacris
#57. O crooked paths! Woe to the audacious soul, which hoped, by forsaking Thee, to gain some better thing!
Augustine Of Hippo
#58. I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6'. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
James Cromwell
#60. It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.
Ludacris
#61. She had a crooked nose and a pointy chin with a huge mole that had wiry black hairs growing out of it. Heck, if the New Order was really looking to arrest witches ...
James Patterson
#62. Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.
Lewis B. Hershey
#63. So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time.
Patrick Ness
#64. If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
Christie Watson
#65. History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.
Jeannette Walls
#66. If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea.
Will Durant
#67. Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.
Lilli Thal
#68. Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.
Jane Swisshelm
#69. If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Silouan The Athonite
#70. 14Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Anonymous
#71. I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.
Jane Seymour
#72. She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
Veronica Roth
#73. I opened my mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Talking to Mom was a bit like trying to fold a fitted sheet: no matter how hard you try, it always ends up a lumpy, crooked mess. So why even bother? (Page 120)
Marci Lyn Curtis
#74. Have you anything to say to me now, Madam?" he demanded. "Your wig is crooked," I said, and closed my eyes again.
Diana Gabaldon
#75. Drake's eyes opened, and Ria felt her heart rate pick up. Gently, he removed her hand and backed off the bed to shed his jeans in record time. Commando. She couldn't help the grin that spread across her face.
He crooked an eyebrow at her. "I'm not going to be the only one naked here.
Chudney Thomas
#76. He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#78. The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.
Orison S. Marden
#79. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
#80. And his kiss wasn't at all like his smile. It wasn't crooked or one-sided. It was quite simply ... perfect.
Rachel Hawthorne
#81. If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make time's spoils despised every where. Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
William Shakespeare
#82. Obama is so crooked it is a wonder he can walk straight.
David Icke
#83. He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.
Anne McCaffrey
#84. Sorry 'bout that," Pretty Boy says with a crooked grin. I don't know whether he's apologizing for our initial collision or for the humiliating near-miss of an inadvertent motorboat situation.
Lauren Layne
#85. Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. Mulder gave a crooked smile of welcome. 'Sorry,' he said, 'Nobody down here but the F.B.I.'s most unwanted.
Les Martin
#87. Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. Her fingers were gnarled and crooked like the roots of the oldest swamp trees. Not prissy roots of trees that grew in manicured parks and didn't understand the mess of life. These were roots forced to grow around, and down, and through, to survive.
Amber Kizer
#89. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
Edward Abbey
#90. Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.
Thomas H. Green
#91. Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#92. Nate shook his head with a crooked grin. You haven't gone Back to the Future, McFly.
Elizabeth Sharp
#93. These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.
John F. Kerry
#94. What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it.
Jeannette Walls
#95. Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies
#96. She should be snugly tucked into a bed somewhere in a house with a shrinking mortgage, a teddy bear crooked under one arm, ready to go back to school the next morning and do battle for God, country, and second grade.
Stephen King
#97. I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people.
Josh Homme
#98. Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
Thomas Jefferson
#99. The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares
Catherine Fisher
#100. Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
Immanuel Kant
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