Stealing Quotations | Page 4

It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

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 to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

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

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

The trick is to steal big.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

Don't let those people steal your day

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing.

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

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

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

No one can steal our dream.

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

You know, some people are stealing and they're making a big deal out of it,

These aren't kids out stealing cars or that sort of thing. This isn't a criminal justice (situation). That's not who we are. ...I think that's the perception. It's just not the reality.

This is more than just breaking into someone's home and stealing their goods; this is a personal intrusion of unimaginable proportions. Certainly, it's going to have a lifetime influence on her.

All he knows is he gives the money to Lance (Malone). He presumes Lance is passing it on, rather than stealing it.

Hunger steals the memory

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

The guys do have a chip on their shoulder because they do watch TV and they do hear the things that are said about mid-majors and about our league stealing bids away from other people. That upsets us.

The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related death while in US custody is five months -- the same sentence that you might receive in the US for stealing a bicycle. In this case, the five-month sentence was for assaulting a 22-year-old taxi-driver who was hooded and chained to a ceiling while being kicked and beaten until he died.

A guest from company A could possibly hack into a conference held by company B, their competitor, stealing valuable corporate data and leaving the hotel open to liability.

You were very proficient at looking him (Lay) right straight in the face and telling you were loyal and he could count on you, but you knew in your heart you were stealing from the house. You were successful in your lying and your deceit from 1997 all the way up to 2001, weren't you sir?

The court's decision confirms that people cannot build a business on stealing the creative work of others and profiting from it.

The city's not stealing property. It's paying top dollar for the property on the Boardwalk.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

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.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

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.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

I'm not going to lie. I would definitely steal stuff from set.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

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.

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

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.

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

I steal from every movie ever made.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

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

Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?

In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

We never nicked stuff from other bands because that was a no-no because we were all in the same boat. You don't steal from the poor because, let's face it, they're poor. There's no sense in that.

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

But in a story I can steal her soul.

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

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Most people still steal music.

Someone stole my heart. I haven't gotten it back, because I haven't found anyone to steal it back for me.

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

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

I can still steal a base anytime I get ready.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?

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.

Howʹd you get here?ʺ I asked. She winked. ʺYouʹre not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get people to ‘willinglyʹ lend them.

Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

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

There are a few places, and not many in the swing states, there are a few places where they have been notorious for stealing votes: Pennsylvania, Chicago, places where a lot of cheating have gone on over the years.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

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

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

Where there's property, there's theft.

If you want to learn something, just steal it.