Robbed Quotes
218 quotes by 190 authors
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Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed.
— Samuel Johnson
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When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities…
— Josephine Hart
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If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end…
— Donald Miller
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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90…
— Bob Barker
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'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is…
— Carl Sagan
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As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
— Josemaria Escriva
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I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
— Robert Earl Keen
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Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them…
— Martin Luther
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I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would eventually die a…
— Sitting Bull
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In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my…
— Marvin Hagler
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because…
— Martin Lewis Perl
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Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.
— Matt Rees
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Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained one of the…
— Laurie Cabot
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Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.
— Pope Francis
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Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
— Randy Newman
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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
— Jon Foreman
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It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body that I didn’t…
— Jessica Ortner
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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