Crooked Timber Quote Quotes

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ~ Immanuel Kant

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made. ~ Immanuel Kant

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

Yet man is born to love. He is compassionate, just and good. He sheds tears for others and such tears give him pleasure. He invents stories to make him weep. Whence then this furious desire for wars and slaughter? Why does man plunge into the abyss, embracing with passion that which inspires him with such loathing? Why do men who revolt over such trivial issues as attempts to change the calendar allow themselves to be sent like obedient animals to kill and be killed? ~ Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber Of Humanity

To carry timber into the wood.
[Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.] ~ Horace

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber. ~ Samuel Johnson

How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Wouldn't it be great to stop, if only for a minute on a regular basis, and reflect on how wonderful everything is? ~ Timber Hawkeye

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty. ~ Lauren Bacall

You shall love your crooked neighbor / With your crooked heart.. ~ John Green

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

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

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We cannot control what anyone else is up to; we can only be mindful of what we can each do individually, and do it well. ~ Timber Hawkeye

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. ~ John Millington Synge

Try not to make a straight line crooked. ~ Matthew McConaughey

I have really crooked teeth - they give me character! ~ Emma Roberts

We have a tremendous personal responsibility for the way our life has turned out, and an equally important role of steering it into the future. Although we constantly make decisions, we're not always mindful of their far-reaching consequences. ~ Timber Hawkeye

Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity. ~ George Will

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ~ Thomas Overbury

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

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The belief that a crooked heart is betrayed by palsies, tics, and other infirmities dies hard. ~ John Cheever

People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be! ~ Mary Stewart

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots. ~ John Lyly

It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. ~ Marguerite De Angeli

Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100. ~ Jochen Zeitz

No public man can be just a little crooked. ~ Herbert Hoover

Compassionately understand that everyone is on his or her own path and, furthermore, honor where everyone is on that journey at every moment. No fear, no hatred, bigotry or animosity, just deep understanding, empathy, love, and respect for all beings. ~ Timber Hawkeye

Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW ... Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry! ~ Darryl Cherney

The decker these ***holes brought with them is top tier, but I'm going to stomp his jelly beans so hard his kids will be born crooked. ~ Amie Kaufman

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. ~ David Bowie

Crooked smiles for crooked hearts. ~ Zoraida Cordova

In a crooked mind even the right thing gets crooked. ~ Arsenie Boca

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops. ~ Tony Sirico

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

How time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see. ~ Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

So go ahead, surround yourself with like-minded people for comfort and support, but don't forget to honor those who push your buttons just as much if not more, for they're the ones who provide the opportunity to grow and mature beyond having buttons that can be pushed. ~ Timber Hawkeye

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction. ~ Miyamoto Musashi

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace? ~ Crooked I

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked. ~ Christie Watson

Happy birthday, he sighed, and leaned down to touch his lips to mine.
I reached up on my toes to make the kiss last longer when he pulled away. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, and then he disappeared into the darkness. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. ~ Alexander Pope

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. ~ Michel De Montaigne

By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers. ~ Eric Schneiderman

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well. ~ Angus Stone

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

And so they opened the door to the idea that in the name of future peace, any and all means might be justified - including even exterminatory war."108 Kant himself despised this turn, noting that such a war "would allow perpetual peace only upon the graveyard of the whole human race." And the American framers, equally aware of the crooked timber of humanity, were positively phobic about the prospect of imperial or messianic leaders. ~ Steven Pinker

Out of ten listener, only one can recite accurately what he/she heard exactly from the speaker, others will tell you less, more, crooked and lies. ~ Bradley B. Dalina

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth. ~ Lenny Bruce

The desires of the heart ... are as crooked as a corkscrew. ~ Robert Stone

Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women. ~ Kenneth Rexroth

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. ~ Horace Mann

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. ~ John Muir

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. ~ Alfred Nobel

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco

Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange. ~ Tom Waits

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line. ~ Arthur Miller

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. ~ George Herbert

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I need to live like that crooked tree
...
that knelt down in the hardest winds
but could not be blasted away. ~ Edward Hirsch

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

A crooked log makes a strait fire. ~ George Herbert

Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains. ~ Peter Heller

Very few people are ever healed by being told a truth instead of feeling the truth for themselves. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, All The Crooked Saints

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

The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity. ~ Gerry Spence

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

On a small square, wood is being cut for the city school. Cords of healthy, crisp timber are piled high and melt slowly, one log after another, under the saws and axes of workmen. Ah, timber, trustworthy, honest, true matter of reality, bright and completely decent, the embodiment of the decency and prose of life! However deep you look into its core, you cannot find anything that is not apparent on its evenly smiling surface, shining with that warm, assured glow of its fibrous pulp woven in a likeness of the human body. In each fresh section of a cut log a new face og the human body. In each fresh section of a cut log a new face appears, always smiling and golden. Oh, the strange complexion of timber, warm eithout exaltation, completely sound, fragrant, and pleasant! ~ Bruno Schulz

O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart. ~ W. H. Auden

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. ~ Patrick Stewart

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ~ Pablo Neruda

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

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

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. ~ Ovid

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body. ~ Heather Locklear

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You are beyond the sky; so go there. ~ Steven Cuoco

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water. ~ John Dryden

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. ~ Chanakya

You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You try you'll break your leg. How can you walk straight in a crooked system? ~ Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

If you want to conquer the stress,anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings. ~ Bhimsen Sapkota

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth. ~ Edouard Manet

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight ~ Laurie Nadel

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

When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small? ~ Emem Uko

Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end. ~ Ken Poirot

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that. ~ Bobby Darnell

i want to rip out my heart before you get to it first. ~ Christina Strigas

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well. ~ Karon Waddell