Stealing Quotes
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Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your slightly older self.
terry pratchett— Terry Pratchett, Thud! (Sourced)
Duluth! The word fell upon my ear with a peculiar and indescribable charm, like the gentle murmur of a low fountain stealing forth in the midst of roses, or the soft sweet accent of an angel’s whisper in the bright, joyous dream of sleeping innocence. ’T was the name for which my soul had panted for years, as the hart panteth for the water-brooks.
j(ames) proctor knott— Speech on the St. Croix and Bayfield Railroad Bill, Jan. 27, 1871; Knott made this satirical speech, sometimes titled as Duluth! or The Untold Delights of Duluth, while serving in the United States House of Representatives; the speech lampooned Western boosterism by portraying Duluth, Minnesota, in fantastical and glowing language.
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
— As quoted in A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus (1988) by Eric A. Weiss, p. 404
To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil-speaking, lying, and slandering.
— Catechism.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of— c.1687 Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.
Pray for the grace of accuracy Vermeer gave to the sun's illumination stealing like the tide across a map to his girl solid with yearning.
— 1977 Day by Day,'Epilogue'.
Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.
— 1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.
So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
— 1876 TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.13.
I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth — and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.
khalid abdul muhammad— Speech in Baltimore (19 February 1994), quoted in New York Times (28 February 1994) "Islamic Figure In New Tirade Against Jews"
Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.
savile, george, 1st marquess of halifax— Of Punishment
There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
jo walton— Chapter 18
— Cf. Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. (The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.)
He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.
orson scott card— Chapter 4 (Red Prophet (1988))
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
steve jobs— Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
james russell lowell— International Copyright (20 November 1885).
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
james russell lowell— Motto of the American Copyright League. (Written Nov. 20, 1885).
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos— in an interview on ABC
Howbeit, Paul succeeded in stealing the image of Christ crucified for the figure-head of his Salvationist vessel, with its Adam posing as the natural man, its doctrine of original sin, and its damnation avoidable only by faith in the sacrifice of the cross. In fact, no sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
George Bernard Shaw— Preface, Paul.
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 11 (The Prime Minister (1876))
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series (1844), ‘Experience’.
The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
George Herbert— George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).
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.
Karl Kraus— (1874-1936), Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths (1990). Translated by Harry Zohn.
To keep my hands from picking and stealing.
— Book of Common Prayer, Catechism.
In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing. The Ten Commandments will not budge And stealing will continue stealing.
— Motto of American Copyright League (written Nov. 20, 1885).
I sat with Doris, the Shepherd maiden; Her crook was laden with wreathèd flowers; I sat and wooed her through sunlight wheeling, And shadows stealing for hours and hours.
— Arthur James Munby, Pastoral.
It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus , torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, Would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.
— Joyce Kilmer in "The Proud Poet" in Main Street and Other Poems (1917).
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth of carefully respecting the property of others of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux]], p. 295.
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief , we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
— Lukas Foss, in About The Creative Process
