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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. -- Bobby Fischer
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan. -- Ethel Mumford
Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. -- George Vancouver
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht
I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. -- Mickey Rourke
Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy. -- Tablo
I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri. -- Cole Younger
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. -- Elsa Maxwell
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism. -- Ben Bradlee
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. -- Hilary Rosen
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. -- Thomas de Quincey
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror for me. When I was sentenced to death, it didn't hold anything for me. -- Richard Ramirez
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My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it. -- Aileen Wuornos
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. -- George Bernard Shaw
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. -- Bobby Jones
A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter. -- Jay Leno
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again. -- Guy de Maupassant
We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure. -- Ronald Reagan
Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich. -- Robert Reich
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before. -- Jonathan Kozol
Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all. -- Willie Sutton
As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful. -- Rupert Hughes
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank. -- Bobby Jones
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life. -- Paul McCartney
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. -- William Hurt
Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given. -- Kim Jong Il
I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more. -- Hayao Miyazaki
If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that. -- Nicole Holofcener
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them. -- Carl Hiaasen
The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised. -- John James Audubon
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero. -- Bill Dedman
Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing. -- Jesse James
Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better. -- Michael Mann
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it. -- Kenneth R. Miller
I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want. -- Reid Scott
Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis. -- James Cook
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity -- Nikolai Berdyaev
If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself. -- Quinton Jackson
Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar. -- Benjamin Franklin
Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him. -- Richelle Mead
For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip. -- Haddon W. Robinson
No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen. -- Karen Marie Moning
I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now the bad guy's not targeting cash. He's targeting narcotics. And he's robbing a pharmacy because that's where the narcotics are. -- Paul Martin
If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him. -- Butch Cassidy
As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve. -- Felix Wantang
When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...] -- Ilona Andrews
Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical. -- Giovanni Bisignani
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. -- Peter Schiff
We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now. -- Maya Angelou
I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food. -- Daphne Oz
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. -- Markus Zusak
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute. -- Philip Jones Griffiths
The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop. -- Tony Blair
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics. -- Thomas Sowell
I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness. -- Ingrid Weir
man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future. -- Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. -- George Orwell
Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash. -- Robert De Niro
If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them. -- Michael Haneke
I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude. -- Kim Hyesoon
It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His. -- Francis Chan
Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life? -- Sheri Fink
If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven. -- Paul Crouch
I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart. -- John Dillinger
Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture. -- Abraham Cowley
DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves. -- Larry Lujack
Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience. -- Alicia Keys
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories. -- Donald Miller
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we're good enough. -- Martha Beck
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing. -- Fran Lebowitz
[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as their government. In a democracy it would be your government. -- Noam Chomsky
Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens. -- Daughn Gibson
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business. -- Kenneth Roberts
If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple. -- Russell Simmons

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