Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.
In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole creation to its proper purposes, to make straight what is crooked, and to redeem both humanity and the creation from the curse of sin, then herein can be found the possibility for a full and wholesome realization of human artistic activity.
When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
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.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle
God draws straight with crooked lines.
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
No public man can be just a little crooked.
I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.
It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.