Crooked Quotes (page 6)

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• time
• you me
• best

Option three: Edward loved me. The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brillant or perfect than me he might me, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine. Was that what I'd been trying to tell myself?"Oh!"Bella?"Oh. Okay. I see."Your epithany?" he asked, his voice uneven and strained."You love me," I marveled. The sense of conviction... Stephenie Meyer

• humanity
• humanness
• humane

From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made. Immanuel Kant

• humanity
• human
• constructs

From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed. Immanuel Kant

• god
• universe
• manly

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? C. S. Lewis

• sea
• sunlight
• love

in the cupboard sits my bottlelike a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its soundagainst the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradiseand deathand the lie of love. Charles Bukowski

• him
• common
• commoners

JEANI need him like the axe needs the turkey. HARRINGTONDon't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common. Preston Sturges

• effort
• common
• mind

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear. Toni Morrison

• crook
• crooks
• cheaper

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. Dashiell Hammett

• prayer
• saying
• crook

I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail. Edward Abbey

• tree
• wind
• wild

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away. Amy Tan

• grace
• law
• coming

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out. Billy Sunday

• humanity
• made
• human

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant

• humanity
• evening
• evenings

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made. Immanuel Kant

• evening
• cover
• people

People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. Louis L'Amour

• humanity
• human
• humans

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn. Immanuel Kant