#robb

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#kind #law #men #most #precious

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#cops #crime #each #investigating #learn

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#bull #fun #played #robbins #role

Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #tom-robbins #death

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

#esteemed #friend #friendship #left #life

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time. ↗

— Aileen Wuornos

#another #because #cold #hated #humans

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#fine #fine thing #house #keeping #luster

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#earth #emblem #give #greed #millions