Top 100 Stealing's Quotes
#2. I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Tom Clancy
#3. Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.
Shantideva
#4. I never saw her down, you know? But those last two times, it was like she was . . . fading. As if someone was stealing her spirit.
Nalini Singh
#5. Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
Lexi Alexander
#6. I watched as that dark blob walked out into traffic, then was violently struck by a car. Yup, that's me. I was somewhat proud of humanity when I saw that a few people immediately came over to me to see if I was okay, rather than stealing my wallet or completely ignoring me.
Dennis Liggio
#7. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#8. I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.
Keith Thurman
#9. The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
John Berger
#10. There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe.
Scott Lynch
#11. Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
Chet Atkins
#12. I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.
Greg Proops
#13. I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
Laurie Simmons
#14. I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra.
Shinji Moon
#15. Woman, if i was straight, i would steal you from him so hard.
Tammara Webber
#16. The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Lionel Trilling
#17. Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
Pope Francis
#18. One of the inconveniences of stealing books - especially for a novice like myself - is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.
Roberto Bolano
#20. If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.
Dossie Easton
#21. The Republicans' plan is that if they can't buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
Elizabeth Drew
#22. I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
Frank Carson
#23. I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?
Pierce Brosnan
#25. I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves ... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.
Ashton Kutcher
#27. Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.
Cheech Marin
#28. But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?
Terry Pratchett
#30. Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
Lane Garrison
#31. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.
Sparky Anderson
#32. A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.
Theodore Roosevelt
#33. Her arms crept around his neck and she sunk her hand into the wavy hair at his nape. He was stealing her senses. She needed to stop this ... in just a minute. He was such a good kisser, just the right amount of pressure and passion. She sighed again and moved her hands to his shoulders pushing back.
Tamara Hoffa
#34. I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.
Jack Newfield
#35. Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when you die the Lord will say
Where is the book you stole away
And when you say you do not know
The Lord will say go down below.
L.M. Montgomery
#36. This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.
Matt Taibbi
#37. It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave
Kevin Gates
#38. I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!
Jackie Mason
#39. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.
Scott Lynch
#40. At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.
Beth Orton
#41. We own too much stuff. And it is stealing our joy.
Joshua Becker
#42. In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
James Russell Lowell
#43. The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.
Anatole France
#44. Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.
John Conyers
#45. I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.
Joss Stirling
#46. The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
John Sutter
#47. I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That's the way I look at it. It's wrong. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.
Art Alexakis
#48. I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
Nicolas Cage
#49. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.
Emile Zola
#50. It touches every aspect of our social lives, our loving and hating, fighting and cooperating, giving and stealing, our greed and our generosity.
Richard Dawkins
#51. I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.
Cheech Marin
#52. Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job.
Otsuichi
#53. When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
Edward Abbey
#54. If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.
Roma Downey
#55. Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.
Phil Ochs
#56. ... God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.
John Green
#57. Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#58. Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.
Hartley Coleridge
#59. Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.
Jacqueline Carey
#60. That's the thing about love, my dear. It comes when you least expect it, when you least want it, and when you have sworn to yourself you're done with such foolish dealings, POOF! There is Mr. Wonderful standing right in front of you, stealing your heart away.
Kate Danley
#61. The spoken truth of Rudy Steiner
'I guess I'm better at leaving things behind than stealing them.
Markus Zusak
#62. He leaned in then and kissed me again, sweet and soft and tender, silencing my arguments and stealing my breath, making me wonder how one simple gesture could be so tragically lovely.
Kimberly Derting
#63. I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
Kevin Mitnick
#64. Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?
Bob Dylan
#65. A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#66. Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.
James M. Cain
#67. The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.
Elvis Presley
#68. If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
Seth Godin
#69. Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.
Neil MacGregor
#70. If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.
Nick Simmons
#71. Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
Dan Ariely
#72. Stealing a car was easy. The hard part was putting up with the whining.
Lili St. Crow
#73. I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.
Squarepusher
#74. You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.
Matt Taibbi
#75. The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.
John McAfee
#76. No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt
#77. I won't trouble you long," said Maricara. "No doubt you have all manner of pressing plans to consider. Spies to engage. Betrayals to enact. That sort of thing."
"Only on Sundays," Kim replied. "It's Tuesday. We're discussing stealing sweetmeats from small children today.
Shana Abe
#78. None of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.
Markus Zusak
#79. Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me directly.
Greg Giraldo
#80. When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.
Jean Genet
#81. Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?
Richelle Mead
#82. Give a day's work for a day's pay. Anything less is stealing.
Nicholas Sparks
#83. When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.
Conan O'Brien
#85. Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours
Kate Atkinson
#86. I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
Ovid
#88. By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
Patti Smith
#89. Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
Mark Cuban
#90. All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#91. I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.
Kevin Dillon
#92. But obviously if there was no concept of ownership there'd be no concept of stealing, would there? As long as there's one starving child in the world, all property is theft.
Fuminori Nakamura
#93. She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?"
"Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused.
"What do you want to call it?"
He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.
Cassandra Clare
#95. I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror for me. When I was sentenced to death, it didn't hold anything for me.
Richard Ramirez
#96. Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
Jimmy Cliff
#97. I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.
James Cagney
#98. I'm so pleased you're such a quick judge of character. You've got him tagged."
"Yep, toe-tagged, in the freezer, then buried six feet under.
Joss Stirling
#99. Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.
Creed Bratton
#100. May your shadow never grow less (or stealing would be too easy)!
J.R.R. Tolkien
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