Best 286 quotes in «stealing quotes» category

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...!

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

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.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.