Stealing Quotes

1148 Stealing quotes by 866 unique authors

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between… — William Shakespeare
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me?" I'll try to get one for each… — James Patterson
We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the… — James Redfield
...to be paid for one's joy is to steal. — Mark Helprin
When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. — John O'Donohue
Nobody steals books but your friends. — Roger Zelazny
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When I was a fetus, I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping. I figured I should start stealing stuff while… — Steven Wright
How does it feel, anyway?" How does what feel?" When you take one of those books?" At that moment, she chose to keep still. If… — Markus Zusak
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my… — Henry Miller
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for… — Barbara Kingsolver
Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking… — Gerard Way
Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back. — Hakim Bey
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. — Leo Buscaglia
And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. — Mitch Albom
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product. — John Berger
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going… — Margaret Mitchell
Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. — Terry Pratchett
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? — Markus Zusak
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer… — Walt Whitman

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