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  • Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

  • Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

    Men   Greed   Stealing  
  • The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

    "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".
  • The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

  • If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

    Drug   Done   Stealing  
    Source: www.complex.com
  • Donia asked incredulously. “What were you doing?” “The day had just begun, and we were dancing,” Aislinn said. “Dancing?” Donia looked at the Summer Queen with the same disdain Keenan had once seen on her face when she looked at the Summer Girls. “Of course you were. Bananach is attacking faeries, stealing from our courts. Irial is injured. Faerie is closed. Yes, dancing is precisely what will help.

    Girl   Summer   Queens  
  • Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

    "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.
  • And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

  • Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

    Elderly   People   Age  
  • Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

    Funny   Friendship   Dog  
    Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.449
  • He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

  • ...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

    Liars   People   Leader  
  • Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.

    Jobs   Home   Government  
  • To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.

  • Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

    Home   Fire   Volcanoes  
    "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.
  • [Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

    Self   Firsts   Opinion  
    Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”
  • Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

    Christmas   Mom   Dad  
  • About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

    Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
  • Bluetooth earpieces are so geeky," Dan Cahill said. "But they free up your hands for surfing the web, stealing priceless jewels, and eating pastry," Atticus said, taking a huge bite out of an apple strudel. "And picking your nose," Dan added, which caused Atticus to blow a mouthful of strudel all over the seat in front of them occupied by Dan's sister, Amy, who was trying to sleep

    Sleep   Blow   Hands  
    Roland Smith (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 4: Shatterproof”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.
  • Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

    Respect   Flower   Mean  
  • The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.

    Morning   Blood   Rose  
    Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.43, Macmillan
  • A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

    Hands   Helping   Chef  
    "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". 'Seinfeld' ('The Pie'), Season 5, Episode 15, February 17, 1994.
  • I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

    "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.
  • If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

  • Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

  • I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.

  • My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

    Mother   Father   Eye  
  • I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan
  • It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

    Men   World   Stealing  
    Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”
  • She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

    Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
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