Quotes About Stolen Things

#1. Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.

Joseph Brodsky

#2. Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.'
'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.

Jonathan Carroll

#3. We hope for things we may not get to see, and we hold on with both hands because it's one of the few things that can't be stolen from us.

Lauren DeStefano

#4. We photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.

Brassai

#5. No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything ...

Ilona Andrews

#6. I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

Suzanne Palmieri

#7. My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

Stephanie Beacham

#8. Jack had stolen that from Nosferatu: the love of a pure woman had an uncanny power over the things of darkness. Maybe 1964 was the last moment when you could get away with that: try such a thing now and people would only laugh.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I remain quiet. I am determined to close myself to the world, to tighten my heart and hold what has not yet been stolen from me. I cannot let myself slip away. I will hold what I am inside, and keep my hands tight around all the things I have seen and heard, and felt.

Hannah Kent

#10. Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

Jonathan Carroll

#11. I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

David Levithan

#12. Evil things often look beautiful.
But that's because they've stolen the beauty from the good ... Evil isn't beautiful on its own.

Regina Doman

#13. When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I'd like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Kelley Armstrong

#14. There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.

Bill Gates

#15. The way we avoided each other as children., the way we couldn't stop looking at each other when we were older, a thousand stolen moments in the tree house - all the things that made us who we are

Kiera Cass

#16. As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#17. Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

Robin Sharma

#18. There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.

Jennifer St. Giles

#19. So one might cry for everything that was wrong with the world, for all the injustice and crudity and cruelty, for all the things that are stolen from people.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

Gore Vidal

#21. And so now, under a Colorado sky so blue it hurt my eyes, we arrived at the terrible truth. You can plot your escape, you can ditch your life and your family, and you can race down a two-lane highway in a stolen car. But there are things you can never out run

James Patterson

#22. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to mind is yours forever.

Louis L'Amour

#23. They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, I'm almost ready. I've got a few things to take care of and then we can be reunited.

Sanjida Kay

#24. I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.

T. Greenwood

#25. Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

#26. It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.

Doug Dorst

#27. I'm very good with sunglasses. There are things like ... maybe headphones - either they're stolen or something - but sunglasses I tend to really hold on to.

Leigh Lezark

#28. Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

L. Neil Smith

#29. Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them.

C.J. Milbrandt

#30. Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.

Steve Maraboli

#31. In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and would never be found. They put in the paperwork that Emirates Airlines had lost it, although we knew for sure it was all stolen by those girls in the airport of our first departure.

Sahara Sanders

#32. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Michel Faber

#33. I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

Big Sean

#34. There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe.

Scott Lynch