Best Crooked Sayings
228 Crooked quotes by 191 unique authors
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I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of…
— Geneen Roth
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I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.
— Tim Daly
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We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole.…
— Marianne Williamson
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It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them…
— Ellen Barkin
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Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance…
— Sun Myung Moon
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Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving…
— Richard M. Weaver
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We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.
— J. Cole
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The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But…
— Jim Cymbala
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God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
— C.S. Lewis
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May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
— Chanakya
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The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless…
— Orison S. Marden
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true…
— Howard W. Hunter
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The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings.…
— James Shirley
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Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of…
— Jan Morris
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... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail,…
— Sara Gruen
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An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not…
— Edmund Burke
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I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
— John Lyly
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The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
— Ella Leya
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It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after…
— Marguerite de Angeli
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