Crooked Quotes

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

There are 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.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

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.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

Crooked Hillary. Look, can you imagine another four years of the Clintons? Seriously. It's time to move on.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

[The corporate media] agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy.

Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to raise your taxes up to the sky. She wants to raise.

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .