Best 286 quotes in «stealing quotes» category

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?

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.

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.

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

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.

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

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

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

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

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.

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

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

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

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.

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

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 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

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Hunger steals the memory

Holding back is so close to stealing.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

Honestly, I love stealing things.

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

I can't have cats around me because they try to steal my energy.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!

I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to.

I did shoplift but I didn't get in trouble for it. I shoplifted a lot when I was little. Candy. I would steal candy.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other’s birthright – that of equality.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.