Crooked Quotes · Page 7

As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a…

— Anonymous

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

— John Green

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth…

— Milo Ventimiglia

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course…

— Abraham Lincoln

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers…

— Brennan Manning

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

— Dallas Willard

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised…

— Steve Allen

The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see…

— Johnny Giles

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

— Edward Hirsch

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

— Anthony Kiedis

“Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Out of ten listener, only one can recite accurately what he/she heard exactly from the speaker, others will tell you less, more,…

— Bradley B. Dalina

I felt like it was something that didn't represent how I wanted to present myself. Now I'll see kids I come across…

— Milo Ventimiglia

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked…

— Anonymous

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

— Thomas Jefferson

Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every…

— Tom Waits

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or…

— Kam Williams

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

— Thomas Carlyle

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked…

— George Carlin

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

— John Lyly

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

— George Herbert

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

— Paul Theroux

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

— Suzy Kassem