Theft Stealing Quotes

#1. Manda and Sara are annoying because their whole belief system is in opposition to my own. They live by a Grand Theft Auto morality, by which lying, whoring, and stealing scores innumerable points.

Megan McCafferty

#2. As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

Sharon Kay Penman

#4. The stealing began again with carrots, which apparently are the gateway vegetable, because soon it led to all manner of produce theft.

Jewel

#5. Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

Patrick Leahy

#6. It should be obvious why it's easier to copy someone else's painting, rather than work on site or even from a photograph. All the selection, rejection and design have already been done for you.

Ron Ranson

#7. It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

Meryl Streep

#9. The firm of Strange had not been built on softness; what you stole from it, you were welcome to keep.

Keith Roberts

#10. Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

Hanya Yanagihara

#11. If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. It's always easier to take something than work for it ...

Alexandra Bracken

#13. There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

Steve Jobs

#14. Advice is a form of Nostalgia

Mary Schmich

#15. The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

Anais Nin

#16. But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.

Lian Tanner

#17. Never mind Communist solidarity, China and the Soviet Union wanted to do business with the likes of Hyundai and Samsung, not with state-owned enterprises in the North that didn't pay their bills on time.

Barbara Demick

#18. Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

Bill Lear

#19. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

Robert J. Sawyer

#20. Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

Anthony Robbins

#21. Steal from everyone and copy no one.

Charles Movalli

#22. Severe and terrible punishments are enacted for theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

Thomas More

#23. Where there's property, there's theft.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

William Samuel Johnson

#25. 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

#26. The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness,
Her soul was taken from sanity.

Roman Payne

#27. If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research

Guthrie Govan

#28. The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

William Shakespeare

#29. Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

George W. Bush

#30. I do not ask for your answer now." Brokenstar ignored the warrior's challenge. "You must each go away and consider my words. But bear this in mind: Would you prefer to share your prey, or be driven out and left homeless and starving?

Erin Hunter

#31. I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

David Beckham

#32. Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

Lexi Alexander

#33. That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#34. Emerging markets are hugely important.

James Dyson

#35. Seamus walked a direct line to Frank and handed him the gun, backwards, with the barrel open.

Amy Vansant

#36. Fear is a thief because fear robs you before you even begin.

Bryant McGill

#37. It is better to copulate than never.

Robert A. Heinlein

#38. Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Kevin Bales

#39. Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft

Jack Vance

#40. The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

Terry Pratchett

#41. It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.

Walter Wykes