Top 100 If You Steal Quotes
#1. I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.
Greg Proops
#2. If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself.
Tamsin Egerton
#3. If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.
Nick Simmons
#4. If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
Guthrie Govan
#5. At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.
Nick Cohen
#6. The Nation observed, If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier.
Oliver Stone
#7. If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner
#8. If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
William Jennings Bryan
#9. If you seal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. (Mizner)
Brian O'Hare
#10. If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
Mobutu Sese Seko
#11. Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?
Diana Prince
#12. If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry.
Jessamine Lovelace.
Cassandra Clare
#13. I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.
Tony Bennett
#14. If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz
#15. If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.
Mobutu Sese Seko
#16. Woman, if i was straight, i would steal you from him so hard.
Tammara Webber
#17. If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
Dana Brunetti
#18. If you want to learn something, just steal it.
Woody Guthrie
#19. On Furnishing One's Home
Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.
Justin Halpern
#20. If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
Werner Herzog
#21. The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare
#22. James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped.
L. Taylor
#23. What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?"
"I'm going to remember. When there was art.
Francesca Lia Block
#24. Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#25. I'm asking you to marry me within the next hour." He simply looked at her. "I can't think of a reason why you should. I have no moral sense to speak of. I lie, I cheat, I steal, and I'll probably drive you away screaming within the week. But if you marry me, I'll only do those things on your behalf.
Courtney Milan
#26. If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean
#27. No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.
Robin Hobb
#28. Harold,' she would say, 'do you think I'm a fool? If I place the Crimson Diamond in any safe-deposit vault in New York, somebody will steal it, sooner or later.' Then she would nibble a sprig of catnip and peer cunningly at me.
Robert W. Chambers
#29. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
#30. Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.
Ellen Langer
#31. If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you ... you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.
Don Farrell
#32. It is amazing the things love will make you do. Love will make you kill, cheat, and steal. It will also make you walk away from the person who inspires your feelings if it keeps a smile on their face and gives them happiness.
Tabatha Vargo
#33. If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy
#34. Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.
Bikram Choudhury
#35. You are so perfect for me" - hot words against her lips - "I'd steal you if you weren't already mine.
Nalini Singh
#36. Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.
Anthony Michael Hall
#37. Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey.
Jennifer DeLucy
#38. You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.
Huey Long
#39. Careful, Miss Cavanaugh," he whispered. "You don't know what you're asking." He lowered his face to her neck, dragging his lips along her skin up to her ear. "If I steal more from you, if I give you more, I'll want it all and won't let up for a very, very long time.
Madison Thorne Grey
#40. If you have the indecency to steal my book, at least have the decency to write a review.
Grea Alexander
#41. If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.
Aaidh Ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni
#42. Never let anyone steal your power. If they try, you march right down to that junction box and cut the wire.
Grea Alexander
#43. I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.
Megan Whalen Turner
#44. If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.
Tommy Lee Jones
#45. Why do mortals think that suffering is a coin with which they can buy justice or salvation? ... life is a steal if you are a talented thief, and if you are not, then you may suffer all you please but if will buy you nothing but pain.
Karen Maitland
#46. If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.
Steven Weber
#47. You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.
Stephenie Meyer
#48. People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
George Michael
#49. People will steal it if you don't make it easy to buy it.
Charlie Ergen
#50. It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality
Sara Bergmark Elfgren
#51. You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
Dizzy Gillespie
#52. Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me?
I'll try to get one for each of us. Hey! 'If'?
James Patterson
#53. Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.
Ron Paul
#54. Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.
Theodore Roosevelt
#55. If you die, Lily ... I'll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.
Nalini Singh
#56. Don't let immortality do that to you," she whispered. "Don't let it steal your soul." Moss green eyes held her own. "It is, others tell me, far easier to stay human if you split your heart in two and give one part to another to keep.
Nalini Singh
#57. If you help others to be happy, nobody can steal your happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Prose writers, by contrast, are unreliable friends: They are always studying you to see if there's anything in your personality or appearance that they can steal for their next narrative.
Charles Baxter
#59. The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.
Frank Abagnale
#60. The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will ... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith
#61. If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.
Traci Chee
#62. I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can bet that I'll steal away with a book or two.
Billy Campbell
#63. Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.
Mike Todd
#64. Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham
#65. You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.
Jacque Fresco
#66. Steal? How dare you? I don't steal!"
"That's good" I went on, smirking at her. "Because, sometimes I kill things in my sleep. Particularly if they come poking around my tent unannounced in the middle of the day. Comes with living in a vampire city - stab first, ask questions later.
Julie Kagawa
#67. No really," I whispered, letting the sweet, peaceful feeling steal over me. "It only matters if there's someone to care if you don't wake up. It's okay if I don't wake up because there's no one to care.
Kristen Ashley
#69. If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.
Shane Claiborne
#70. Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.
Megan Whalen Turner
#71. If someone is trying to share a laugh and you personally do not find it funny, then just move on and leave it alone. Do not steal someone else's humor.
John Patrick Hickey
#72. A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.
Joe Morgan
#73. It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.
Irene Rosenfeld
#74. If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.
Michael Nesmith
#75. I can't just storm in and proclaim my intentions. I can't 'steal' you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you'll ask," Tamani said.
"And if I don't?" Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper.
"Then I guess I'll be waiting forever.
Aprilynne Pike
#76. If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.
Rob Huebel
#77. We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.
Ramin Bahrani
#78. If you don't get caught, you deserve everything you steal.
Daniel Nayeri
#79. If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.
Josh Billings
#80. Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money
Nnedi Okorafor
#81. They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.
Grover Norquist
#82. We are fiddle, fork, and spoon,
We are dancing with the moon,
If you'd like to steal a kiss from us,
You'd better steal one soon!
Elizabeth Gilbert
#83. When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
Michael Caine
#84. Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.
Malcolm McLaren
#85. Sometimes people may anger you, but realise that they are stealing your energy. Someone can only steal your energy if YOU allow them to.
Steven Aitchison
#86. If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.
Barry White
#87. Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living. Breathe her in, put your nose in her hair, breathe her in deeply. Say her name. It will always be her name. Not even death can steal it. Same alive as dead, always. Aura Estrada.
Francisco Goldman
#88. Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.
Chris Hardwick
#89. I'm gonna try to steal home."
I smiled. "Silly Simon, it's not stealing if I wave you in
Alice Clayton
#90. If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
Robert Breault
#91. LIf someone tries to steal your watch, by all means fight them off. If someone sues you for your watch, hand it over and be glad you got away so lightly.
John Mortimer
#92. Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
Mark Twain
#93. If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
Holly Black
#94. some women can steal your heart by their beauty, some can steal your mind by their intelligence and others can steal your soul by their presence. But if you meet the one who can steal your everything without doing anything, that's the one made for you.' He
Savi Sharma
#95. I would steal horses
for you, if there were any left
Sherman Alexie
#96. In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.
Hugo Weaving
#97. The Theory of Surplus Value means that anytime you hire someone, you are exploiting him. If you pay someone to fix your automobile, he has the right, by virtue of being your mechanic, to steal your car.
P. J. O'Rourke
#98. It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#99. If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.
Bertolt Brecht
#100. We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah Bint Saud
