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Quotes About Thief

Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To track down a common thief? To revel in a moment's revenge? I thought there was more to you than that." Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide.
~ Michael Punke
Walachia, where, Satan claimed, every man is born a poet, lives like a thief, and dies a vampire.
~ Milorad Pavi?
Two thieves also enjoyed the ride with Jesus. Maybe he's coming back to fulfil the promise that he made that day on the cross. Coming for the thief, rather like a thief himself.
~ Unknown
Evil is predictable.' A lie. Because sometimes evil was an insidious thief that crept in and stole what you most treasured, leaving only echoes against a wall. A thin shadow, swinging almost gently. Like on a swing.
~ Nalini Singh
Fear is a thief that comes in the bright light of day, an intruder arrogant and assured.
~ Nalini Singh
Perhaps, for some, love strikes like lightning, but for me, it crept upon me like a thief in the night. A very handsome thief, who has quite stolen my once-lonely heart.
~ Unknown
Uma família que não tem um ladrão. Vê se pode!
~ Nelson Rodrigues
After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be outs, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.
~ Unknown
I am the thief of her last moments.
~ Unknown
Technology would present fewer dangers if manipulating it were not so simple for the imbecile and so profitable for the thief.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Anahtarlar?m?^ ç?kar?p haz?rlamaya f?rsat bulamadan kap?m? görürdüm birdenbire. Sonra, salondaki sallan?r koltu?uma ula??ncaya kadar, dü?ünecek bir ?eyler ç?kard?: H?rs?z kilidini açmal?, as?l kilidi iki kere çevirmeli, vazonun içinden oda anahtarlar?n? ç?karmal?.
~ Unknown
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. I
~ Octavia E. Butler
How long does a thief stay content? And what's it like to starve?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
~ Oswald Chambers
A long time ago a boy climbed a beanstalk, and he came down a thief. Now a thief is climbing a beanstalk. And who knows what will come down?
~ Unknown
O tempo, esse grande ladrão, rouba continuamente; mas uma coisa é ser despojado com magnificência e envelhecer com a consciência de uma existência plena e rica, outra é ser roído miseravelmente hora após hora por coisas que de todo não conhecemos. O inferno dos contemporâneos chama-se monotonia. O paraíso que procuram a plenitude. Existem aqueles que viveram e aqueles que duraram.
~ Pascal Bruckner
Really, Agatha, you might have told me." "Told you what?" Mairelon said. "That my ward was once a street thief? I didn't think it was a secret." "A street thief?" Letitia wrinkled her nose and looked at Kim with disfavor. "How horrid." "I think it is the most romantic story I have ever heard", Miss Matthews said with conviction.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I simply gave her my most charming smile. I'd already told her the truth of things: I was no gentleman. I was a thief.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.
~ Unknown
Like Jean Genet, Robert was a terrible thief. Genet was caught and imprisoned for stealing rare volumes of Proust and rolls of silk from a shirt maker. Aesthetic thieves. I imagined his sense of horror and triumph as bits of Blake swirled into the sewers of New York City.
~ Patti Smith
I can only thank, as I have within myself many times through the years, this unknown benefactor. She was the one who gave me the last piece of encouragement, a thief's good-luck sign.
~ Patti Smith
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" (Jn 10:10).
~ Unknown