Best 286 quotes in «stealing quotes» category

Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

Only your friends steal your books.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

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.

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

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.

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

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

Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

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.

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?

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

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

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

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The trick is to steal big.

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

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