Best 286 quotes in «stealing quotes» category

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.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.

There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

The woman who steals your boyfriend has the ugliest shoes on earth. Truly hideous. You wouldn't be caught dead in them.

Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress.... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.

The trick is to steal big.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.

Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

Try to learn as fast as you can from the wizards and then steal what you can appropriate from them and use it to modernize your existing business model (without disrupting it).

We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species.