Quotes About Steals

#1. A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John Le Carre

#2. He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.

Terry Pratchett

#4. She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Homer

#5. There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say

Ervin Seale

#6. You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.

Richard J. Foster

#8. Which is the woman, which the child? The joyous laugh that opens doors, steals sugared moments from the shelf? Or the dreamer mixing metaphors with tears to make a book of self To read aloud in winter's rooms When summer's sounds have ceased to bloom?

Katie Louchheim

#9. The library knows its own mind," old Master Hyrrokkin told him, leading him back up the secret stairs. "When it steals a boy, we let it keep him." Lazlo

Laini Taylor

#10. I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

B.B. King

#11. The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

Thomas Eakins

#12. When someone steals your goat, my son, it is roasted and eaten and you forget it. When someone steals your corn, it is ground into meal and eaten and you forget it. But when someone steals your land, it is always there and you can never forget it.

Barbara Wood

#13. Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak.

Charisma Carpenter

#14. Here's what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.

Katherine Owen

#15. Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.

Samuel Logan Brengle

#16. When some one steals a small hope from you, you can do nothing, only can see dreams stolen ... It's small thing, but means a lot ... Waiting for several such moments, when your dreams are stolen ... it's life you had no choice just feel it and forget ...

Nutan Bajracharya

#17. Ut time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself

Khaled Hosseini

#18. In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

Robert E. Howard

#19. Next time a sunrise steals
your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way.
Say nothing and listen as Heaven
whispers, Do you like it?
I did it just for you.

Max Lucado

#20. The photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

Subcomandante Marcos

#21. Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

Ronald Reagan

#22. Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

Barbara Cameron

#23. He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#24. And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.

William Shakespeare

#25. I really do believe the camera steals the soul. But that may be because I'm worried about my soul. I don't have much of a soul to begin with; I can't afford to lose much.

Hugh Laurie

#26. The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

Radhanath Swami

#27. And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then - if you allow it - everything else.

Michelle Moran

#28. I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.

Stephen Colbert

#29. Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.

Timothy Egan

#30. By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Richard Savage

#31. Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

Lysa TerKeurst

#32. Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Samuel Butler

#33. Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

Sara Shandler

#34. It's not good ... Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the blood. - Fausto

Mark Mills

#35. He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

Zhuangzi

#36. Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

Thomas A. Edison

#37. When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address or a home. You're nothing.
It's like a stain you can't wash out of your soul

James Lee Burke

#38. Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

Clive Cussler

#39. It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

Beverley Nichols

#40. The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

Benjamin Franklin

#41. Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

Dean Koontz

#42. The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#43. I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#44. He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Swedish Proverb

#45. An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

Luke Scott

#46. I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

Agatha Christie

#47. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Virginia Woolf

#48. Artemis the bitch goddess. You know her. She's the one who stole your soul. (Simi)
She didn't steal it. (Gallagher)
Of course she did. She steals everything. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

Amy Harmon

#50. Pinot Noir country. My grape. The one varietal that truly enchants me, both stills and steals my heart with its elusive loveliness and false promises of transcendence. I loved her, and I would continue to follow her siren call until my wallet--or liver, whichever came first--gave out.

Rex Pickett

#51. a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.

E.J. Copperman

#52. If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.

Allen Iverson

#53. If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.

Smith Wigglesworth

#54. A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

Dieter Appelt

#55. I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#56. The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy

Sunday Adelaja

#57. Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.

Russell Crowe

#58. Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal

Thomas Edison

#59. Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Sam Ervin

#60. A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Cat Stevens

#61. The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

Walter E. Williams

#62. An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

Auren Hoffman

#63. Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

Euripides

#64. Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air,
Or all the elements by scruples, I know not,
Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!
Of all deaths, the violent death is best;
For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast,
The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.

John Webster

#65. My loneliness is not
By the presence or absence of people;
On the contrary, I hate who steals my loneliness,
Without, in exchange, offer me a real company

Friedrich Nietzsche

#66. People dreaming ,economists steals their dreams and politicians kills it

Mohammed Sekouty

#67. Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

Jon Anderson

#68. Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Virgil

#69. He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

#70. A woman who's lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren't you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up

Karen Marie Moning

#71. Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Joyce Meyer

#72. Death steals everything except our stories.

Jim Harrison

#73. We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

Gayle Forman

#74. If someone steals your husband, let her keep your problem.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#75. I wish for once
that she could see
the her that I can see;
beauty that both
steals my breath
and gives it back to me.

Kirk Diedrich

#76. False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

Sam Harris

#77. A flock of butterflies riots in my stomach and steals my breath.

Stephenie Meyer

#78. The Blood Decanter is really a myth. It's a metaphor that we all watch, we all stand before it, awed and reverent; but in actuality, it's a demon that steals your soul.

A.L. Mengel

#79. Nobody steals my pegasus. Not even Rachel. I wasn't sure if I was more angry or amazed or worried.

Rick Riordan

#80. The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.

William Henry Ogilvie

#81. Stress steals the beauty from life.

Debasish Mridha

#82. Come walk with me, come walk with me; We were not once so few But Death has stolen our company As sunshine steals the dew - He took them one by one and we Are left the only two. The

Sigrid Vansandt

#83. Love is like this amazing, all-consuming force that sneaks up on you and steals all those brain cells that make you think rationally and replaces them with emotions so powerful that you're impotent to change their course.

Melissa Foster

#84. Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?

Charles Lamb

#85. Innovation violates tradition
attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Mason Cooley

#86. Hans nods emphatically, lips pressed together, eyes bright and taunting, like a dog who steals a handkerchief so you will chase

Hilary Mantel

#87. I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#88. It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.

Derek R. Audette

#89. A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.

Imran Khan

#90. But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.

Sharon Cameron

#91. Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

William Hazlitt

#92. Kaz narrowed his eyes. I'm not some character out of a children's story who plays harmless pranks and steals from the rich to give to the poor.

Leigh Bardugo

#93. Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?

Robert De Niro

#94. As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#95. Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#96. Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Aeschylus

#97. A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

Rumi

#98. I guess I'm going to look the other way while Finn steals third.

Megan Matthews

#99. Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.
Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me

Friedrich Nietzsche

#100. Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

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