Stealing Quotes - Page 11

• Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Self, Pockets, May

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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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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• [Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Self, Firsts, Opinion

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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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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• For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

  Edna O'Brien

  Writing, Thieves, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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

  People, Internet, Illegal

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. May 1, 2004.

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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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• You have really hard times and you have really good years and you have years that you can't feed your family and you have to sell cars. I gotta tell you, stealing cars is a hell of a lot more fun than selling them!

  Ned Luke

  Fun, Hard Times, Years

  "The GQ&A: 'Grand Theft Auto V' Actors Talk Franklin, Michael, and Crazy Trevor". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.gq.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life.

  Jon Richardson

  Thinking, Phones, Hands

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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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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• I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

  Michael Bay

  Fire, Littles, Firsts

  Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.

  Rickey Henderson

  Running, Winning, Numbers

  "Rickey Henderson – Razzball Interview". Interview with Rudy Gamble, razzball.com. December 26, 2008.

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• I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without their permission all over the Internet and even in print and make a lot of money doing so, but half naked photos that I took of myself are deemed "obscene."

  Marie Calloway

  Men, Thinking, Naked

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Lying, Generations, Conviction

  Beryl Bainbridge (1981). “A weekend with Claude”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Teaching, Two, Giving

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7

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• However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

  James Martineau

  Summer, Fall, Heart

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

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• The woman who steals your boyfriend has the ugliest shoes on earth. Truly hideous. You wouldn't be caught dead in them.

  Mimi Pond

  Shoes, Your Boyfriend, Earth

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

  Margaret Cho

  Years, Drug, Affair

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.64, Ballantine Books

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• Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Blessed, Years, Sight

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Heart, Sunset

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.11

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• A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.

  Dacia Maraini

  Art, Memories, Men

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