Good Lord, what is man for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
Quotes about crooks (14 Quotes)
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.
How can you shorten the subject That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon. So died, for each of us, still bravely fighting, our mathematical training except for a set of people called 'mathematicians' born so, like crooks.
He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.
Now you sit there and shut up... and the next time the President gets fired up to take strong action against Corporate Crooks, like he did last January, shut your yap, stop worrying about over-regulation and market dips, and let him do it, ... That way I won't have to be the one who's supposed to look tough.
The cops won't let us in because there's blood all over the place - it's the crook's blood,
When the Pentagon makes crooks rich and doesn't make America strong, it's a bum deal.
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
Everyone doesn't have credit cards. They make pawn shops out to be crooks, but people live week to week. I'm a poor man's bank. No questions asked. You can walk in here, pawn an item and be about your business. You don't need to explain why you need 50 to pay the electric bill.
'You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-' You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on 'honor among thieves,' and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a 'code for the road.' Crosby, Stills Nash in a hit song.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.