There Was A Crooked Man Quotes

#1. The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

James McBride

#6. Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

Lord Byron

#7. I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Mike Epps

#8. 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

#9. Cause at night the sun in retreat,
Made the skyline look like crooked teeth,
In the mouth of a man who was devouring, us both.

Death Cab For Cutie

#10. I've been nothing but kind to you. I'm not some sort of monster."
"No, you're the man who sits idly by, congratulating yourself on your decency, while the monster eats his fill. At least a monster has teeth and a spine.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover

#12. In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#13. I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

Aretha Franklin

#14. Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

Joseph Parker

#15. Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. Fear says we are alone; joy reminds us of Him who will never leave us or forsake us (Deut 31:6) EL

Evinda Lepins

#17. A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences ... " Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man.

Joe Abercrombie

#18. Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Immanuel Kant

#19. The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have.

Shakti Gawain

#20. The Colt rested in her lap. "You better wake up in the morning, Mr. Latimer because I don't want to have to explain a dead man in my cabin to the sheriff."
- Emma in "Emma of Crooked Creek

MK McClintock

#21. I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.

Charlaine Harris

#22. A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

C.S. Lewis

#23. From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

#24. My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

C.S. Lewis

#25. Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

Gregory Nunn

#26. It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.

George Lois

#27. You're like your dad, you know that? I mean, I know he's not your real - " "Yes, he is." She nodded. "Yeah, he is." And right then I wished with all my crooked heart that my dad had been the man who'd fathered me.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#28. He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

Chanakya

#29. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!

Stephen Richards

#30. Systems provides the necessary predictability, which continuous increase demands for

Sunday Adelaja

#31. The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb
what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.

Jim Cymbala

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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