Robbed Of Everything Quotes

#1. My creative powers have been reduced to a restless indolence. I cannot be idle, yet I cannot seem to do anything either. I have no imagination, no more feeling for nature, and reading has become repugnant to me. When we are robbed of ourselves, we are robbed of everything.

Sally Brampton

#2. A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.

Conan O'Brien

#3. Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.

Rutger Hauer

#4. Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Peter Jackson

#5. I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

Cynthia Rowley

#6. If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding.

J. Spencer Kinard

#7. This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.

Doris Egan

#8. Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.

Ghassan Kanafani

#9. On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was given away, so to speak, before it was received, like water on thirsty soil; it was well that money came to him, for he never kept any, and besides he robbed himself.

Victor Hugo

#10. SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? "I too cannot be cheated," snapped Fate.

Terry Pratchett

#11. All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

Christopher Titus

#12. You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power
he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#13. Technology has robbed us of everything that made being human fun."

--Aristotle Leary
from Rubicon Harvest

C.W. Kesting

#14. Those who have not found the heaven below,
will fail of it above.

Emily Dickinson

#15. What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself? Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Joseph Heller