Quotes About Thief

A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy's Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.

A heaviness settled in that I couldn't explain or pinpoint exactly. I'm not sure how to properly describe it, except to say on different days it crept up with varying personas that seemed to hold me together and rip me apart simultaneously. Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain. In reality, though, it was a thief in disguise, out to steal every bit of closeness between me and those I love.

Don't allow this thief to weaken, expose, or make you vulnerable. Don't compromise. Refuse to accept less than the peace and abundant life God has promised you.

While disease is a mugger, age is a cat burglar who steals but a single day each night; and the thief has learned patience.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

There is one more thing," said Mr. Peabody. "Now you must go and pick up all the feathers." ... "I don't think it's possible to pick up all the feathers," Tommy replied. "It would be just as impossible to undo the damage that you have done by spreading the rumor that I am a thief," said Mr. Peabody. "Each feather represents a person in Happyville." ... "Next time, don't be so quick to judge a person. And remember the power of your words.

Desengáñese usted; el ladrón, por valiente que sea, al tiempo de robar siempre tiene miedo. El valor viene unido, dice Santo Tomás, con la justicia de la causa, y esto le explica a usted el valor de los mártires que desafiaban la cólera de los emperadores romanos; pero volviendo a los ladrones, repito que tienen miedo, y por miedo matan al que trata de conocerlos.

You didn't need it, because you're basically a painter, not a thief. But I'm basically a thief. That's what I do.

JAMES QATAR WAS an art history professor and a writer, a womanizer and genial pervert and pipe smoker, a thief and a laughing man and a killer. He thought of himself as sensitive and engaged, and tried to live up to that image.

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

A Minneapolis company has come out with a credit card size shotgun that fits in your wallet. The inventor says he invented it to give people a sense of security. Oh yeah, what makes you feel more secure than sitting on shotgun? Now how does this work? What's the first thing a thief steals? Your wallet, oh, now he's got your gun too!

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

From the seed of the thief The Dragon will rise, the gluttonous one, feeding on the blood of babes, Drinking the tears of mothers. —Song of Venda

and with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.

Matt had told me that cold was just the absence of heat, but it didn't feel like that. It felt like a presence. It felt stealthy, like a thief. You had to wrap your clothes tight around you or it would steal your warmth, and when all your warmth was gone you'd just be a shell, empty and brittle as a dead beetle.

All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!

It isn't action, he suspects, that usually lands a thief in prison. It's hesitation.