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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his… — Abraham Lincoln
God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick. — Corrie Ten Boom
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and… — Edmond de Goncourt
We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on. — Gerald Caiafa
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. — Alfred Nobel
When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will… — Sark
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and… — Hannah Hurnard
I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away. — Ludacris
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty… — David Bowie
Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and… — Ray Davies
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about… — William Butler Yeats
Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For… — Martin Farquhar Tupper
God draws straight with crooked lines. — Andrew Greeley
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. — Michel de Montaigne
Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself. — Gautama Buddha
A crooked log makes a strait fire. — George Herbert
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. — Alexander Pope
A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a… — Sam Walter Foss
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as… — Sam Walter Foss
There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or… — Edouard Manet
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of… — Plotinus
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who… — Theodore Roosevelt
This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when… — Karen Thompson Walker
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I… — Dylan Thomas

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