Quotes About Stealing

After Jessie's murder, Richard's life began to change radically. He had less and less interest in school and more and more interest in getting high, stealing, and getting high some more. He clashed with his father frequently, but there was nothing Julian could do to force his youngest back on the straight and narrow line he had walked up until Jessie's murder.

It's an easy thing to steal, any jerk could do it, but to steal and not get caught, ever, that's something else. That's something you have to train for. And to learn it properly takes years," Richard later said.

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

There are more ways of stealing than simply holding a gun to a man's head. Whenever and wherever by fraud, deception, or coercion we take from anyone what is rightfully their own, and which they have no desire to surrender, we have robbed them.

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.

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

That's what Alzheimer's does: it's a thief in the night, stealing precious pictures from our lives while we sleep.

I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse.

The money quickly began to disappear into the rucksacks and footlockers of the officers and enlisted personnel who had access to it; some was mailed home to wives and girlfriends. The stealing in Iraq reached epic proportions.

It is a tradition among our desert tribes. A man may borrow what he needs. Stealing is crime.

For you, perhaps. Tell me, how many more of those pretty baubles have you purloined since then?

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

**(C)(P)-RAS CARDO SPEAKS:- MY LEGACIES HAVE BEEN SHARED WITH THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD OVER THE YEARS OF MY LIFE. THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN STEAL IT ARE LIKE FOOLISH DOGS BARKING AT FLYING BIRDS, OR THOSE THINKING THEY CAN HOLD SMOKE IN THEIR HANDS, THE TRUTH IS-IT LIVES WITHIN THEM. IT IS MORE ABOUT MEMORIES THAN IT IS WITH MONEY OR MATERIAL WEALTH AND VANITY. I WILL LIVE ON FOREVER. THIS IS IMMORTALITY!

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

He [Christ] climbs the tree to repay what was stolen, as if he was putting the apple back; but the phrase in itself implies rather that he is doing the stealing ... Either he stole on behalf of man ... or he is climbing upwards like Jack on the Beanstalk, and taking his people with him back to heaven. The phrase has an odd humility which makes us see him as the son of the house; possibly Herbert is drawing on the medieval tradition that the Cross was made of the wood of the forbidden trees.

A psychologist recently wrote that "aesthetics have replaced ethics, so that stealing is no longer immoral, but being ugly and fat is." I'm drawn to people still willing to work against this frightening irony.

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