Stealing Quotes - Page 17

• When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

  Thomas Moore

  Time, Memories, Past

  Thomas Moore (1853). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc. [With a Portrait.]”, p.52

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• I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Men, Thieves

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• Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.

  Clive James

  Pirate, Caves, Treasure

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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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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• I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

  David Levithan

  Mind, Want, Stories

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• Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

  Warren Ellis

  Cutting, Comic Book

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• If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

  Abe Lemons

  Sports, Airplane, Guy

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• Age steals away all things, even the mind.

  Virgil

  Birthday, Philosophical, Mind

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• If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.

  Alice Walker

  Running, Encouragement, Thinking

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• A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Reading, Pennsylvania, Lawyer

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• Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

  William Petty

  War, Mean, Men

  Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.7

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• Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

  John Newton

  Time, Loss, Years

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.153

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• Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

  Voltaire

  Evil, Infidelity, Adultery

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.

  Laura Riding

  Thinking, Long Ago, Pounds

  "A Survey of Modernist Poetry". Book by Laura Riding, 1927.

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• Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

  Ryan Blair

  Confidence, Follow Your Heart, Milk

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

  George Orwell

  Country, Horse, Kings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

  Homer

  Peace, Decay, Ends

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.406

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• I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dog, Years, Tea

  Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in "Harper's Magazine", February 2000.

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• Most people still steal music.

  Steve Ballmer

  People, Stills

  "Steve Ballmer Q&A: Microsoft CEO on security, piracy, licensing and the digital future". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.zdnet.com. October 5, 2004.

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• I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!

  Trish Stratus

  I Dont Care, Spotlight, Spears

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• When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

  Conan O'Brien

  Visionaries, Financial, Republican

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• The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Kissing, Advice

  Song: The Pirate Of Penance, Album: Song to a Seagull

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