Best Stealing Quotes

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

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem’ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You’re supposed to steal from the good ones.

For most countries, serving the UN’s objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.

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.

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

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or she stole, and from whom? With the artist it is not how much he or she took from whom, but what the artist did with it.

Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Lets face it, you did steal me. But you saved my life too. And somewhere in the middle, you showed me a place so different and beautiful, I can never get it out of my mind. And I can’t get you out of there either. You’re stuck in my brain like my own blood vessels.

The reality is you must realize that this was a choice made by the impostor. We all have choices, and there is always a better solution than to steal. They have chosen to sacrifice you for their own needs.

I was on Stealing Beauty in 1996 and then I started feeling acting was something I wanted to do forever. It made me feel like I’ll still be looking for parts when I’m 70 years old.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

It definitely wasn’t like, ‘Hey, I’m going to steal that, and nobody’s going to know.’ The original ‘T.R.O.Y.’ came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight – every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

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

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn’t have it anymore.

Everything happens for a reason and, of course at times it’s very discouraging, but at the end of the day you can’t take it personally and move onward because if you let it sit with you, then it starts to eat away at you and you’re allowing someone else to steal your excitement. No one wants that.

Nothing steals God’s glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear

Modern authoritarianism, as it’s growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power to protect the guilty than to persecute the innocent. And its motive is not crazy totalitarian utopianism, it’s motive is repressive kleptocracy. To steal and to use the powers of the state to protect theft.

His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He licked her lips. He didn’t steal her kiss. He didn’t take it. He cajoled it from her.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

If the shoe fits, steal it.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.