Best Stolen Quotes
403 Stolen quotes by 320 unique authors
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other…
— Elie Wiesel
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The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
— Desmond Tutu
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and…
— Howard Zinn
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Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen encounter with brains…
— Sijie Dai
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and…
— Emma Thompson
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I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.
— Lauren Ambrose
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When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be…
— Gregg Braden
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To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards…
— Ghassan Kanafani
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This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen…
— Andrew Forrest
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Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.
— Remi Kanazi
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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…
— Aldo Leopold
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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
— Simone Weil
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I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were…
— Angela Merkel
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
— Ted Koppel
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The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
— H. L. Mencken
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
— Charles Lamb
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I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Stolen kisses require an accomplice.
— Texas Bix Bender
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Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by…
— John Granger
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It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and…
— Caspar Weinberger
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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters…
— Matthew Henry
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Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at…
— Stephen Stills
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