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Quotes About Stealing

Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.
~ Susanna Kaysen
What about supplies and stuff we can't scavenge from other planes?" asks John, his leg bouncing more fiercely than usual. "If we can't get cash from the front office to buy it, we'll have to creatively find it." Creatively finding is Connor's euphemism for stealing.
~ Neal Shusterman
Is stealing stolen property less reprehensible than plain stealing?
~ Tim Powers
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.
~ Knut Hamsun
Once I dreamed of flying, she thought, and now I've flown, and dream of stealing eggs. That made her laugh. "Men are mad and gods are madder" she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
~ George R.R. Martin
Am I still a thief if I put it all back and no one ever knows?
~ George R.R. Martin
Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.
~ Jack London
A selfish man is a thief.
~ Jose Marti
Hope was a dangerous thief, stealing her todays for a tomorrow that would never come.
~ Kristin Harmel
That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?
~ Cassandra Clare
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
If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry. Jessamine Lovelace.
~ Cassandra Clare
did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach. He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect for club and fang. In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.
~ Jack London
The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.
~ George W. Plunkitt
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
~ Edvard Munch
ABAC'TOR, noun [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.
~ Noah Webster
Many Turks prospered by liquidating Armenians' businesses, stealing their stocks, and seizing Armenian farms and real estate.
~ Christopher Simpson
Stealing drugs, selling drugs, buying clothes, renting luxury cars, taking clothes back, ordering blender drinks, this isn't what I'd call Real Life, not by a long shot.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How do you form an Empire? By stealing a Republic. And how do you steal a Republic? By convincing its people that they cannot govern themselves—that freedom is their enemy and that fear is their ally.
~ Chuck Wendig
Intruders can rig your private elevator easier than stealing a Mercedes-Benz.
~ Clive Cussler
what could be less satisfying than stealing from someone so endowed that they never even noticed what you'd taken?
~ Celeste Ng
And under the contract, management couldn't fire a Teamster unless they had certain grounds. They had none. Stealing was grounds only if they could prove it. Besides, I worked hard for them when I wasn't stealing from them. But
~ Charles Brandt
Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I'm at least as bad as that Marlon Brando character and that some day I'd like to get in union work. The Teamsters gave me good job security at Food Fair. They could only fire you if they caught you stealing. Let me put it another way, they could only fire you if they caught you stealing and they could prove it.
~ Charles Brandt
Your eyes stole at dawn his clarity. (Tes yeux ont volé A l'aube sa clarté)
~ Charles de Leusse