Stealing Quotes

1148 Stealing quotes by 866 unique authors

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to… — Mercedes Lackey
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,… — Mark Twain
We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here,… — Audrey Niffenegger
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser… — Francis Spufford
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;… — William Shakespeare
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered… — Nelson Mandela
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for,… — Archibald MacLeish
I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and… — Woody Allen
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. — Salman Rushdie
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. — Khaled Hosseini
If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal… — Dave Eggers
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not… — Rachel Caine
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,”… — George Carlin
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can… — Megan Whalen Turner
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing… — Daniel Handler
There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "If it's impossible to steal them with two hands,… — Megan Whalen Turner
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini
Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown. — Tom Petty
Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think… — Charles Spurgeon

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