Stealing Quotes - Page 22

• Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

  Mason Cooley

  Innovation, Tradition

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• I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, Read Books Ltd

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• The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Knowledge, Thieves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...

  Gerard Way

  People, Over You, Soul

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• There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does?

  Edward Snowden

  Research And Development, Secret, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They could tell something was up when a guy named Barack Obama was trying to take money from banks instead of giving it to them.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Texas, Giving

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• How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

  Laura Riding

  Philosophy, Reality, Giving

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• The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.

  Iamblichus

  Names, Firsts, Separation

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Clothes, Long

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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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• For age with stealing steps
  Hath clawed me with his crutch

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Age, Steps, Aging

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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• I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

  Rickey Henderson

  Running, Home, Boys

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• When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted to be sure where I was in the afternoons. Mom always used to say, "If you don't come home dirty, you didn't play a baseball game." So I always tried to get in a situation where I had to slide so that I could go home dirty.

  Rickey Henderson

  Mom, Baseball, Dirty

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!

  Eberhard Arnold

  Taken, Mean, Air

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior
  judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

  Nat Turner

  Youth, Judgment, Periods

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

  Mark Cuban

  Stories, Internet, Free Speech

  "Streams of consciousness" by Joe Ashbrook Nickell, www.wired.com. October 8, 1998.

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• Time steals away without any inconvenience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Inconvenience

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Immature, Mature

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• Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.

  Russell Crowe

  Children, Men, Judging

  "American Gangster, The Russell Crowe Interview: On Jail, Justice And Jive Talk To Babes On The Weight Of A Man". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. October 29, 2007.

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• One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

  Aesop

  Complaining, Ifs

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• 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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• [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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• The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Son, Men

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.598, e-artnow

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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 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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