Stealing Quotes - Page 15

• The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

  George Herbert

  Sleeves, Geese

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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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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• 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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• 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

  Philosophy, Doe, Feels

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Summer, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.43

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• Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

  Phil Ochs

  Mother, Games, Lines

  Song: The Harder They Fall

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• The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.

  Bill Vaughan

  Kids, Car, Choices

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• I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Law, Mp3

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• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Summer, Country, Flower

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• My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

  Patti Davis

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Men, World, Seems

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

  Brigham Young

  Suffering, May, Want

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.108

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• I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Romantic, Summer

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.201, Harvard University Press

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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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• There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Order, Discipline

  Source: productivemag.com

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• This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.

  Nina Berberova

  Time, Years, Three

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• We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

  David R. Brower

  Children, Parent, Earth

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• The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.

  Jo Coudert

  Circles, People, Trying

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

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• I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

  Jim Rash

  Smart, People, Secret

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• And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Ooh La La, Blake Lively Talks to Florence Welch About Clothes, Men and More!". Interview with Florence Welch, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Genius, Mediocrity

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• The morning steals upon the night,
  Melting the darkness.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  William Shakespeare, Aaron Augustus MORGAN (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare, as Exhibited in His Works. By the Rev. A. A. Morgan”, p.162

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• Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Motherhood, Stronger, Vulnerable

  Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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