Robbed Quotes
218 quotes by 190 authors
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But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not…
— Gustavo Gutiérrez
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I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...
— Joseph Conrad
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This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,†I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.†But even as…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
— D. J. MacHale
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We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that…
— Bertrand Russell
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
— Sigmund Freud
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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
— Virginia Woolf
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She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was…
— E. M. Forster
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Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.
— Bruce Coville
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We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell…
— Shonda Rhimes
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For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest…
— Marianne Curley
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But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
— William Faulkner
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America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted…
— Malcolm X
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I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be.…
— Cassandra Clare
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A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress…
— Cassandra Clare
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Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.†“You should be.†His warm gaze…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the…
— David McCullough
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And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Robbed Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 218 Robbed Quotes, led by these top contributors: