Stealing Quotes - Page 21

• Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

  Emily Carr

  Fall, Hypocrisy, Conviction

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  My Friends, Ifs

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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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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• 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. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Justice, Suffering

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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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• When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Girl, Country, Children

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.12

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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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• The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Past, Echoes, History

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.221

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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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• Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "Tinselworm". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

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• Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God to know that stealing is bad. All of God's children and their different faiths help to realize the immensity of God. No faith contains the whole truth about God. And certainly Christians don't have a corner on God. All of us belong to God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Children, Hate

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Powerful, Atheism, Damnation

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.

  Wes Anderson

  Crazy, Thinking, Tvs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2007.

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• When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

  Barack Obama

  Doors, Arson, Building

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 28, 2015.

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• Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.

  Johannes Brahms

  Important, Copying, Theme

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• Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

  John Dobbin

  Sleep, Cat, Protect You

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• Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Humorous, Night

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• I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

  Rod Stewart

  Work, Book, School

  Song: Maggie May, 1971

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• The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

  George Bird Evans

  Dog, Autumn, Gun

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• Whenever possible, steal code.

  Tom Duff

  Code

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• You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

  Barbara Corcoran

  Share, Limelight

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