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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright but poor are systematically robbed of their potential.
Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.
I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.
I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
I've lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.
We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.
If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
Seattle deserves a team. They got robbed of their basketball team.
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old.
An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.
The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.
Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
Typical" Kisten said, his eyes dramatically sad. "Try to do something nice for a person, cheer her up, and what do I get? Abused and robbed.
You play well, you feel comfortable, then you lose via a deflection or an individual mistake and you feel robbed.
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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.
Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times.
It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.
It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.
When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.
The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."
I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don't trust men that much any more.
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.
A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
