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Quotes About Steal

Opportunity makes a thief.
~ Francis Bacon
An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.
~ Luke Scott
If I'm feeling in a naughty mood, I'll steal some of Mama's Creme De La Mer. If I'm feeling in a very naughty mood, I'll steal some of Daddy's Creme De La Mer. On the whole though, I'm very low maintenance.
~ Amber Le Bon
Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects. And they were right, it is envy. Just holding it is envy. I envy the Commander his pen. It's one more thing I would like to steal. The
~ Margaret Atwood
Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
~ Margaret Fuller
Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
~ Christopher Pike
We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?
~ David Bowie
Having a great narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running commentary totally holds your attention, who makes you laugh out loud, whose lines you always want to steal. When you have a friend like this, she can say, Hey, I've got to drive up to the dump in Petaluma--wanna come along? and you honestly can't think of anything in the world you'd rather do.
~ Anne Lamott
Identity is a posture that we steal and assemble as a protective coating, but it's also a ski mask, camouflage and protection from the cold.
~ Anne Lamott
I am glad I have found this napkin. This was her first remembrance from the Moor, My wayward husband hath a hundred times Wooed me to steal it, but she so loves the token— For he conjured her she should ever keep it— That she reserves it evermore about her To kiss and talk to. I'll ha' the work ta'en out, And give't Iago. What he will do with it, Heaven knows, not I. I nothing, but to please his fantasy.
~ Shakespeare William
To rob Peter and pay Paul.
~ John Heywood
He told me that in the hallways at Versailles, there hung a faint, ever-so-faint smell of human excrement, "because as the chambermaids hurried along a tiny bit would always splash from the pots." Many years later I realized that he was half-remembering a detail from the court of Louis XV, namely that the latrines were so few and so poorly placed at the palace, the marquesses used to steal away and relieve themselves on stairwells and behind the beautiful furniture...
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.
~ Scott Peters
Clubs are taking away the steal of home. Not only are more pitchers throwing out of the stretch position, but more third basemen are playing closer to the bag. But another reason why nobody does it much anymore is that some guys, no matter how fast they are, just aren't comfortable trying to steal home.
~ Tony La Russa
Beating a tight game requires focus. You'll need to seek out every opportunity where you can steal a big pot. One way is by representing a hand that your opponents probably can't beat.
~ Daniel Negreanu
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
~ Mario Puzo
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
~ Mario Puzo
Though it would take a long time for him to understand the principle, it was that to be paid for one's joy is to steal.
~ Mark Helprin
And the night shall be filled with music,         And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,         And as silently steal away.
~ Anya Seton
Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children.
~ Simon Doonan
Whatever the Grinch can steal, it's not Christmas.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Satan would willingly lose every battle to us, so long as he could successfully steal the attention that belongs to God.
~ John Paul Jackson
treat or simply treat as you praise them. Do not take the toy away from them. The goal is to teach your puppy that "Give" means "spit it out." This action highlights your good intentions to play and not steal.
~ Sarah Hodgson
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
~ Michel de Montaigne