Stealing Quotes - Page 4

• I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

  Joni Mitchell

  Trying, Similarity

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• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  H. L. Mencken

  Cheating, Honesty, Lying

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• The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.

  Joan Rivers

  Fun, Memorable, Mean

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.

  Terrell Owens

  Children, Support, Trying

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Divorce, Enthusiasm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.

  Markus Zusak

  Believe, Commitment, Trying

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.361, Random House

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• Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us, values like food that has gone bad-and when food has gone bad it makes us sick, these values make us sick. We have to go against the current! And you, young people, be the first: Go against the grain and be proud of going against the grain. Go on, be brave and go against the current! And be proud of doing it!

  Pope Francis

  People, Sick, Brave

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• The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

  George W. Plunkitt

  Opportunity, Men, Political

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• You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.

  Libba Bray

  Dog, Fire, House

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• Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

  Sam Ervin

  Rain, Unjust, Injustice

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• The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Horse, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Giving

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• The reality is you must realize that this was a choice made by the impostor. We all have choices, and there is always a better solution than to steal. They have chosen to sacrifice you for their own needs.

  Linda Foley

  Sacrifice, Reality, Choices Made

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• Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Kings, Forever, Honor

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• ...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

  James Hunter

  Liars, People, Leader

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• Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

  Jack London

  Heart, Hawaii, Sweetness

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it was so that she could see what was on the other side, but really, it was so that she wouldn't have to look at herself. That, and because she thought she might be able to steal a piece of glass when no one was looking, and use it to carve her heart out of her chest.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Heart, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.

  Xenophanes

  Men, Deception, Done

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• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Winning, Ems

  Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

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• Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Reflection, Bears

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.281, Cambridge University Press

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• You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

  Peter Zumthor

  Glasses, House, Skins

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• As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

  Henry Adams

  Real, Democracy, May

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.462, Harvard University Press

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• There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

  Maynard Webb

  Zero, Giving Up, Hard Work

  "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

  Black Francis

  Obvious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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