Robbing Peter To Pay Paul Quotes & Sayings

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics. — Thomas Sowell

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.' — Rudyard Kipling

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to. — Ingrid Betancourt

Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind. — David Souter

I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want. — Reid Scott

In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do some fairly standard philosophical analysis of ideas in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. — Philip Kitcher

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice — Kurt Cobain

I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul — David Weber

It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years. — Dan Jenkins

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever. — Rick DeMarinis

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments. — Charles Spurgeon

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst — John Piper

Handles. That's all he could think when he saw them. The woman had braided handles into her hair, just begging a man to grab them and guide her head where he wanted it to go. Surely she had to realize that. — Shannon K. Butcher

'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.' — Nellie Bly

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. — Plato

Hung herself in the closet."
"Hanged," said Nate.
"Don't be one of those people. — Peter Clines

There are times in our lives when everything comes together and we know we are exactly where we are supposed to be. — Melissa Foster