Stealing Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Stupid, Half, Dollars

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• 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

  Country, Expression, Civilization

  Letter to Robert W. Gordon, February 15, 1926.

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• I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Gentleman, Doe, Coats

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
  Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
  His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
  Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
  Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
  Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
  No more sits listening by his den, but steals
  Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
  And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  William C. Bryant

  Dog, Sleep, Doors

  William Cullen Bryant, “Noon”

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• It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

  LaToya London

  Funny, Past, Years

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Cousin, Thieves, Whole Family

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• Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Cheerful, Brightness, Purses

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Future, Age, Use

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yes We Can, People, Criticism

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

  Alexander Smith

  Happiness, Pulse, Glimpse

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Doe, Old Man

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

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• People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

  John Pfahl

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

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• Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

  Margaret Fuller

  Pain, My Time, Effects

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.151

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• As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

  Laurence Sterne

  Leaving, Genius, Letters

  Laurence Sterne (1783). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.101

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• I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.

  Brian Regan

  People, Different, Jokes

  Source: www.citypaper.com

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• There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep pointing you that way, but it is also your job as an actor to understand that there are scenes that you do, particularly when you are the lead, where other people get to come in and steal and you have to let them. I understand that but a good director always reminds you where those moments are.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Winning, Order

  "The Descendants - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

  Jane Addams

  Dinner, Poverty, Morality

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Differences, Addiction

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I guess when people feel intimidated or they see something having success they steal it. I don't judge 'em for it but I'm starting to notice that.

  LeSean McCoy

  People, Judging, Ems

  "Interview: LeSean McCoy Talks Chip Kelly, Kobe Bryant, & Nick Foles' Rap Knowledge". Interview with Maurice Peebles, www.complex.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Heaven, Devotion

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.115

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• Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.

  Robin Thicke

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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• This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

  Pitbull

  Deals, Sucker

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.

  John Armstrong

  Boys, Night, Nymphs

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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