Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your slightly older self.
terry pratchettDuluth! 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 knottSo they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
howard h. aikenPrisoner, God has given you good abilities, instead of which you go about the country stealing ducks.
william arabinI'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.
malcolm bradburyMother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.
lenny bruceThere is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
jo waltonThere was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only "hooking," while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing and there was a command against that in the Bible. 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.
mark twainHowbeit, 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 ShawIt 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 TrollopeYou have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.
jack vanceJust as a vagrant accused of stealing a carrot from a field stands before a comfortably seated judge who keeps up an elegant flow of queries, comments and witticisms while the accused is unable to stammer a word, so truth stands before an intelligence which is concerned with the elegant manipulation of opinions.
Simone WeilTo [Henry] James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.
edith whartonTo keep my hands from picking and stealing.
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.
Prisoner, God has given you good abilities, instead of which you go about the country stealing ducks.
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.
rose macaulayDon't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.