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World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. -- William Shakespeare
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. -- Calvin Trillin
After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!' -- Vinnie Jones
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. -- Phyllis Diller
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking. -- Pericles
A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way. -- Marcelene Cox
An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed. -- Michael Owen
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. -- Elias Canetti
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. -- Edward Fitzgerald
Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. -- John Edward Redmond
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style. -- Jelly Roll Morton
As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points. -- Calamity Jane
Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations. -- James A. Forbes
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. -- George Combe
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only. -- Lysander Spooner
You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them. -- Luke Scott
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986. -- Steve Sabol
At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever. -- Kendrick Lamar
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families. -- Gary Bauer
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved. -- Brendan Myers
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. -- Stephen Bayley
When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign of oppression supported and substantially armed by the most powerful nation on earth. -- Michael Leunig
People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other. -- Michael Schur
To build is to be robbed. -- Samuel Johnson
Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace. -- Tupac Shakur
But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. -- Barbara Kingsolver
For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed. -- Babatunde Fashola
Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character. -- Criss Jami
Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense. -- Bruce Coville
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. -- Sigmund Freud
Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood? -- Pope Francis
Earlier tonight somebody robbed an all-you-can-eat buffet. Suspect at large. -- Jarod Kintz
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. -- Gunter Brus
Everyone's related to someone who robbed a bank or did something. -- Laura Schlessinger
Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm! -- Pope Francis
She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do. -- William Faulkner
I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life. -- Matthew Rhys
Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer. -- Billy Graham
One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed. -- Aesop
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God. -- Saint John Chrysostom
People saying that you been robbed is almost better than winning a Grammy. -- Schoolboy Q
Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed. -- Angela Carter
Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood. -- Pope Francis
If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind. -- Jon Foreman
If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction. -- Padgett Powell
Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride. -- John Boyega
The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night." -- Johann Bernoulli
But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration. -- Mitch Albom
I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew. -- Piper Laurie
Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew. -- Piper Laurie
You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light. -- David Clement-Davies
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed. -- Billy Higgins
Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed. -- Billy Higgins
You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation. -- Neal Shusterman
He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot. -- Samuel Johnson
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. -- Sitting Bull
The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers. -- Gene Weingarten
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time -- Robert Earl Keen
Women who marry for money and Men who marry for beauty are equally robbed in the end. -- Harmon Okinyo
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. -- Richard Power
The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics. -- Moby
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad. -- Susan Sontag
Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed. -- Randy Newman
Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed. -- Jay Leno
Years of depression have robbed me of thatâ??well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent. -- David Barton
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead. -- Ann-Marie MacDonald
Crew look like we robbed a bank, but all we make is deposits Your prophet will profit, oh God. -- Big Sean
Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed. -- Samuel Johnson
He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself. -- Hermann Hesse
If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be. -- Ron Paul
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association. -- Hank Azaria
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. -- Carl Jung
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me! -- D. J. MacHale
Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times. -- Josh Silver
Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat. -- Bill Johnson
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? -- Kenneth E. Boulding
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened." -- Dale Carnegie
Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated. -- Matt Rees
Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities. -- Steve Maraboli
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to spend a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees. -- Alfred Capus
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.' -- Billy Evans
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value. -- Jack London
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life... -- Joseph Conrad
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent. -- Hamish Bowles
O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever." -- Graham Greene
O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever. -- Graham Greene
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The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent. -- Joseph Sobran
[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old. -- Craig Ferguson
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace. -- Josemaria Escriva
Typical" Kisten said, his eyes dramatically sad. "Try to do something nice for a person, cheer her up, and what do I get? Abused and robbed. -- Kim Harrison
I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times. -- Margot Robbie
I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year. -- Kanye West
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty? -- Lucy Stone
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies? -- Ben Jonson
If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim. -- Pierre Moreau
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered. -- George Eliot
An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed. -- Michael Owen
To live without youis to be robbed of loveand what is life without it?To live without youis death to me, my lovebut some call it life. -- Rumi
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London. -- Boris Johnson
Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him? -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different. -- Jose Mujica
Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity -- Arthur Nersesian
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. -- Phillips Brooks
Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour! -- Pope Francis
This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice. -- Aziz Ansari
It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism. -- Alan Moore

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