Stealing Quotations

Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

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

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

I loved the idea of how all these guys always are stealing other guys' girls and I was like, 'There's no female anthem for a girl stealing another guy's girl,' and that is the coolest thing ever.

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

Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations' cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but higher than killing their game. If you've seen big stupid American versions of France's 'Three Men and a Cradle' or, recently, Japan's 'Shall We Dance?,' you can only mutter: 'Guilty, guilty, guilty.'

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

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

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

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

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

When we do our pre-game talk, we talk about certain people not liking pressure. But it seems like none of their players likes pressure. We tried to jump on that, totally, because that got our defense going. And we knew that if we kept pounding them and pounding them ? not just stealing the ball but just getting stops ? that would frustrate them.

What's not well known is they're not in the business of stealing things and theyre not hackers. It's best to think of them as a fence between the buyer and the seller. They're not technologists and they don't care to be, they just want to make sure that their activities are not traceable and these are the organizations that are operating around the world.

We're not against Barry Bonds as an individual. We're against what he stands for. ... There was no way before the steroid allegations I would have booed him. When Barry Bonds was skinny and he was stealing bases, he was an amazing player to watch.

Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.

When he gets a feel, that's when he's going to go. Stealing bases is all about rhythm. Once you get your rhythm, it's easier to steal a base.

We were a very inconsistent hitting team last year. We left a lot of runners on base because we couldn't get the hits at the right time. We've also got to do better on defense, especially when the other teams are stealing bases on us.

People will steal it if you don't make it easy to buy it.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

Let no one steal your peace.

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

We are all hurt by insurance scams. As health care consumers, we all end up paying the price for fraud. Health insurance fraud perpetrators are basically stealing from consumers who are paying into the insurance system. Whether it's a doctor charging for a procedure that wasn't actually administered or a phony insurance agent selling fraudulent insurance to a senior citizen, the cost of fraud ends up being passed on to consumers.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

I lie! I cheat! I steal!

That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

All writers steal from their own lives.

When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.

This will not affect people's legal status, but it's pretty terrible. It's the worst kind of preying on vulnerable people. This guy was just stealing their money and they were getting nothing in return.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

We have a zero tolerance for people stealing funds meant for storm victims. Many of the cases we are prosecuting involve small amounts. But we wanted to get out there with these arrests in part to deter people.

I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

We are talking about political fraud and blatant stealing of votes. This is an offer which must be rejected.

When the judge looked at the evidence and saw how blatant the stem cell opponents were in stealing the codes and information from our Web site, he said that it was an obvious and intentional attempt to confuse the public. They're willing to use every tool of deception and disinformation to accomplish their goals.

[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

One time when I was working, earlier in the night we had been given notice by the UP to be on the lookout for a gentleman who was possibly stealing bikes. It was around 2:45 in the morning that we actually saw him. As soon as we went to radio it into base, the UP surrounded Epsilon (where we saw him at).

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.

Now, they know how we feel. We finally stole one from them like they have been stealing from us. (Last night) was our time.

People would go right back to stealing music.

On the Internet there are no boundaries, there are no doors, there are no countries and lines; it's just the Internet, wide open and if somebody feels like hacking a website, they're just going to do it. There's no personal information on the website, so they're not hacking for personal information, stealing social security numbers or anything, they're hacking just to do it.

I was shooting for a more important number -- 100 runs. It means I've been getting on base. Stealing 50 bases is a great accomplishment. I'm pleased with my work ethic to get here.

If they are allowed to unilaterally change the copyright law and copy anything unless somebody tells you 'no,' it will be impossible for people in the intellectual property community to operate. They keep talking about doing this because it is going to be good for the world. That has never been a principle in law. They 'do no evil' except they are stealing people's property.

I could see stealing bread and milk if your children were hungry, ... But these people are scum.

I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something.