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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.
I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.
A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous.
We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.
Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
The entire spring and summer line from Marc Jacobs was stolen on the way to the fashion show in Paris. The thief is considered armed and fabulous.
I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.
For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!
In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.
All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.
I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.
Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It's not fair to look for role models in them.
Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.
Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!
I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
I'm so excited about 'Identity Thief'. It's such a good comedy, and I'm excited for people to go out and see it!
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?
What I appreciate about Radiohead's work - and it's most evident in 'Hail to the Thief' - is how the juxtaposition of narratives on the band's albums somehow creates a sense of wholeness.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.
You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief
