Crooked Quotes · Page 8

“The path of faith was a crooked one.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.”

— W. H. Auden

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

— Horace Mann

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.”

— Edward Abbey

“Nate shook his head with a crooked grin. "You haven't gone Back to the Future, McFly.”

— Elizabeth Sharp

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

— Donald Trump

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

— Hugh Howey

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

— Patrick deWitt

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

— Anonymous

Crooked Hillary. Look, can you imagine another four years of the Clintons? Seriously. It's time to move on.

— Donald Trump

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

— Immanuel Kant

Dont take advice from people while building a house otherwise you will have a crooked house.

— Vikrant Parsai

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

— Anonymous

The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and…

— Jim Cymbala

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow…

— Henry David Thoreau

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or…

— Swami Vivekananda

Happy birthday," he sighed, and leaned down to touch his lips to mine. I reached up on my toes to make the…

— Stephenie Meyer

“For him, the world was now a picture knocked crooked. He could barely judge the ground beneath his boots and the stars…

— Andy Davidson

In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will…

— William Butler Yeats

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and…

— Helena Christensen

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best…

— Anonymous

I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities…

— Joel Osteen

Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing…

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him…

— Howard W. Hunter

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a…

— Mitch Albom

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…

— Gerald Durrell

True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked.…

— Laozi

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

— Franz Grillparzer

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

— Herbert Hoover

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can…

— David Bowie

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

— John Dryden

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in…

— John Locke

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a…

— Heather Locklear

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

— John F. Kerry

I have been offered other roles on television but I don't think I'll be able to enact those crooked characters.

— Supriya Pathak