Stealing Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

  Werner Herzog

  Ambition, Labs, Cameras

  "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe". Documentary, 1980.

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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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• 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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• 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 the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.

  Mike Harding

  Dog, Strong, Humorous

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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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• 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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• Whenever possible, steal code.

  Tom Duff

  Code

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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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• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Government, Justice, Mind

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• You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

  Barbara Corcoran

  Share, Limelight

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• Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

  Euripides

  Men, Feet, Wicked

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

  John Harington

  Lying, Fall, Men

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• We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

  Andy Partridge

  Cost, Gigs, Pounds

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• Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

  Tim Heidecker

  People, Needs, Way

  "Tim and Eric (and Will Forte)'s Zero-Dollar Interview". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Taken, Fruit

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.803

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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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• 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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• 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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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  Barry McGuire

  Italian, Should Have, Years

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• Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Giving, Concern

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