Quotes About Thieves

When I saw that Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, I was dumbfounded! Why would Google get into bed with thieves? They've built a huge audience on the backs of copyright holders - and then they say I have to monitor them?

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

The everywhere-promoted "masking" quickly became a fetish. In all cultures and at all times, masks have represented de-individuation and dehumanization. Thieves wear masks. Executioners wear black masks so their victims cannot see them. Torturers are masked.

That's the direction the thieves took," Nancy told him, noting the dust and tire marks which revealed the van's exit onto the highway. "But," she added, glancing at the dashboard clock, "they're probably too far away by this time for us to catch them." "Yes, ding it," Jeff muttered. Nancy drove as rapidly as the law permitted toward Melborne. All the while, Jeff Tucker peered from one side of the road to the other.

For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.

hate Nairobi. It's dreary and chilly and always rains, and the high crime rate doesn't help. They'll pull a gold chain right off your neck in broad daylight and there's nothing anyone can do. The cops are more corrupt than the thieves. We call it Nairobbery.

New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.

Involvements with glamorous female cat burglars never end up well.

Oh," Peter cut in, "you got the papers for this limousine?" "I got WGON ID," Steve shouted angrily, "and so does Fran." "Right," Peter said venomously, "and we're out here doin' traffic reports? Wake up, sucker. We're thieves and bad guys is what we are. And we gotta find our own way!

My life was a circus. A circus full of thieves, and stupid shapeshifters, and small children executing evasive maneuvers.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

In Deloria's opinion, archaeology is mainly about easing white guilt. Determining that Indians superseded other people fits neatly into this plan. If we're only thieves who stole our land from someone else, Deloria said, then they can say, 'Well, we're just the same. We're all immigrants here, aren't we?

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.

Sólo los ladrones y los niños corren.

Yaln?zca h?rs?zlar ve çocuklar koÅŸar.

Well, well. What have we here? (Thief #1) Looks like we got some little pigeons just right for a plucking. (Thief #2) Well, well. What have we here? (Sin) Looks like a pack of fools wanting to die. (Braden)

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

There is honor among thieves.

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

Down by the river, Down by the banks of the River Charles That's where you'll find me Along with lovers, muggers and thieves Well I love that dirty water, Oh Boston, you're my home. —The Inmates