Stealing Quotes

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

Between, Office, Civilized

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma Bombeck

Why, Anyone, Shopping

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell

Worth, Dickens, Authors

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton

Good, Wrong, Chance

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

Legal, Game, Person

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

Good, Down, Worry

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
Jupiter Hammon

God, Unfaithful, Punish

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien

Trouble, Police, Yesterday

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing

Interest, Begging, Borrowing

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

Work, Money, Why

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh

Yourself, Control, Cannot

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
Ani DiFranco

Humanity, Democracy, Down

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
John Hawkes

Life, Nice, Real

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
Delphine de Girardin

Love, Human, Fire

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
Eddie Izzard

Same, Police, Test

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
Kevin Mitnick

Writing, Challenge, Adventure

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips

Power, Liberty, Few

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

Why, Interested

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
Gary Wright

Music, Great, Art

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
Frank Carson

Funny, Best, Him

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
David O. Selznick

Ideas, Shots, Imitating

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
Idris Elba

Worth, Water, Jail

Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.
Terrell Owens

Time, Money, End

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Bo Jackson

Life, Football, Down

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
Waylon Jennings

Everything, Black, Down

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.
Marlon Wayans

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Ian Anderson

Music, Money, Children

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile

Men, May, Horses

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.
Mike Judge

Life, Legal, Real

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