Stolen Quotes - Page 12

• I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Firsts, Karpov

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. January 27, 2002.

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• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jokes

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• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  Nathan Fillion

  Gun, Serenity, Trophies

  "Sunday with...Nathan Fillion". parade.com. March 13, 2011.

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• Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

  Kanye West

  Luxury, Oxford University, People

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• And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

  William Goldman

  Boys, Beef, Done

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, www.cnn.com. 1973.

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• Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Taken, Heart

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• I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Style, Tunes

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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• Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Moments, Meant To Be

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• I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passion, Guy, Gold

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

  Horace

  Laughter, Colour, Provoking

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• But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

  Emily Maguire

  Letting Go, Regret, Knowing

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• I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by those who could well afford to pay for it, that I would hereafter give advice only to myself and always sell it to others.

  William H. McMaster

  Taken, Giving, Advice

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• Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Dream, Mean

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Two, Yellow

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• Hearts can never be stolen, Cy. They can only be given.” – Ren

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Given

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• And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, Safe

  Song: Do You Love Me?

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• Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Overcoming, Allies

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.265

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• Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills. That's why humans are so interesting.

  Yana Toboso

  Struggle, People, Interesting

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• Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Christian, Respect

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.150, SCM Press

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• The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

  Neil Armstrong

  Men, Important, Principles

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• It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.

  Lucy Christopher

  Taken, Airports, Stories

  "Storm-Wake". Book by Lucy Christopher, April 5, 2018.

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• We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

  Susan Rice

  Nuclear, Harm, Planets

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• Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.

  Billy Connolly

  Looks, Expensive

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• No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Lying, Son, Long

  "Cindy Sheehan: Compassion, Courage, Conviction and Controversy". Interview with Joanna Perry-Folino, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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