Quotes About Crooked

Okay, we didn´t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren't good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep beside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great wars like ours.

There was a crooked child who lived in the crooked house and the child never knew anything other than crooked love…

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

There was something terribly wrong with the child, and simply by crossing paths with him, Phil had caught his attention. He felt trapped in a bizarre otherworld in which everything was crooked, but the harder he fought to extricate himself, the more tangled he became. So, in the absence of better options, he stopped struggling.

within arm's reach of the unfamiliar adult. Soon he was pointing with a crooked finger,

crooked finger,

I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Love? Hmmph. It ain't never 'nuff in a crooked-letter state like this.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

An angel lost his wing, Crooked he did fly.

the patrollers were the law: white, crooked, and merciless. Drawn from the lowest and most vicious segment, too witless to even become overseers.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Well hell, glad to be of service to our community," Orkett said and smiled at Eve. "Is it true a crooked deputy shot you, threw you off a cliff, and you climbed back out and shot him?

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.

He started out foolish and lazy and ended up foolish and crooked.

You are going to appear to be something that you are not, and your whole life and success depends upon this? You are about to see a society into which you cannot enter without rushing into expense that you cannot afford, without losing precious time that is needed for your studies. Ah! my dear Eugene, believe your mother, crooked ways cannot lead to great ends.

No city, regardless of its charm and wonder, could outshine the shadows of THAT notoriety. No boulevards, no matter how flawless, could make straight a lineage THAT crooked. No city need ever be named Cain to ensure THAT name's preservation for posterity.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.