Quotes on Stealing

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Let's take the instant by the forward top;_x000D_ _x000D_ For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees_x000D_ _x000D_ The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time_x000D_ _x000D_ Steals ere we can effect them.

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

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

If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

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

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.