Top 154 Robbing Quotes & Sayings

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart.

My goal is robbing the ball.

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.

Women hold themselves back because they don't think their perspective matters. I'm here to tell you that you're not just robbing yourself when you do that: you're robbing all of us.

Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

Myself, I usually wait until I get home to write. While we're touring, I try to stay as focused as possible on the moment at hand because I feel like I'll be robbing the fans if I don't.

By refusing to lend a hand, we are not only robbing our colleagues and peers of the opportunity to gain guidance, but we are also robbing ourselves of the opportunity to lead.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they're really clean as they're robbing your house.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness.

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.