You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender… You cannot make an opera audience believe… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote… — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the… — Ronald Biggs Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Robbery is not just the robbery of money or human flesh; it involves the soul murder of cultures which will soon die… — Diamanda Galás Copy Share Image
“Sympathy is why when a man is getting mugged, you let him keep his shirt after you take his life. Funerals are… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging… — Tam David-West Copy Share Image
I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
“After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.” — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They came for him one winter's night. Arrested, he was bound. They said there'd been a robbery, his pistol had been found. — Nightwish Copy Share Image
“These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery — Charles Nqakula Copy Share Image
History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
