Zitat des Tages über Gauner / Crook:
Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.
I am not a crook.
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.
I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.
Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.
It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.