Stolen Quotes

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Real, Soul, Cannot

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken

Election, Advance, Goods

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W. Clement Stone

Lunch, Cork, Scoundrel

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.
Hillary Clinton

Between, Personal, State

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
Lydia Lunch

Life, Time, Mind

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde

Love, Women, Black

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.
Chris Rock

School, White, Invented

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
Luis Gutierrez

Health, Year, Rights

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Mort Sahl

Everything, Deserve, Liberals

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
Ben Kingsley

Life, Best, Death

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Valentino Rossi

Same, Racing, Cars

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Giving, Living

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome

Sweet, Idleness, Kisses

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?
Susan Orlean

Hard, Why, Soul

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
Jessica Lange

Leadership, Mind, Suffering

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
Imelda Marcos

Politics, College, Lawyer

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
Ronnie Barker

Nothing, Police, Local

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
Salma Hayek

Time, Heart, Single

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
Salma Hayek

Couple, Private, Hearts

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris Jones

Him, Said, Once

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
Florence Welch

Everything, Play, Times

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
Nathan Fillion

Jokes, References

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
Nathan Fillion

Movies, Made, Serenity

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
Angela Merkel

Around, Story, Three

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
Ian MacKaye

War, Someone, Country

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser

Family, Health, Medical

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Malcolm Fraser

Life, Healing, National

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

Men, May, Stealing

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