#crooked

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#edge #god #line #ruler #scripture

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#crooked #never #path #reached #straight

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got. ↗

— Lewis B. Hershey

#crooked #fellow #first #get #got

No public man can be just a little crooked. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#just #little #man #public #public man

Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you’re a member of Congress.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #crime #criminal #crooked #filthy

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please. ↗

— Jack Finney

#i #lane #please #said #straight

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

#baby #body #braces #crooked #face

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #everything #glance #gone #into

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ↗

— Jean Paul

#approach #becomes #before #bright #clear