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Quotes About Stolen

A veces pienso en lo larga y tolerante que es la vida, después de haberla malgastado tanto tiempo, Otras, cuando pienso en los amigos que se me murieron y en que yo sigo viviendo, me parece que este tiempo es robado y que lo tengo que vivir a escondidas.
~ Felisberto Hernández
You stole my mother's Faces," whispered Neverfell. "You stole them, and you sold them, and you walked around wearing them, and using them to make people do what you wanted. You used my mother's Faces on me. And all the time you were her murderess or close enough. All that time you were trying to murder me.
~ Frances Hardinge
Magic can be found in stolen moments.
~ Francesca Lia Block
There was a guy named Saul two cells over who had a fetish for joyriding with stolen cars. He was about as decent a guy as you'd meet in prison. He had his demons—his seemingly more innocuous than most—but the demons did him in.
~ Harlan Coben
They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stealing memories was stealing time. I got so mad, I lost all fear. I didn't care what happened. I want to live! I told myself. I will live. I will get out of this insane netherworld and get back my stolen memories back and live. Forget the end of the world, I was ready to reclaim my whole self.
~ Haruki Murakami
The biggest problem the banks had was that they had lent roughly 30 billion euros to the Greek government—where it was stolen or squandered. In Greece the banks didn't sink the country. The country sank the banks.
~ Michael Lewis
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.
~ Michelle Moran
In their disfigured semibaldness, something private had been stolen, melding them into a indistinguishable collection, like animals in a herd.
~ Justin Cronin
Wayne claimed to have memorized the names of all of the different possible combinations of Twinborn. Of course, Wayne also claimed to have once stolen a horse that belched in perfect musical notes, so one learned to take what he said with a pinch of copper.
~ Brandon Sanderson
After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant reading scientific papers. Had I not used the stolen material provided by Sci-Hub, it would have cost me thousands.
~ George Monbiot
What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the internet -- and no one's gonna shut down the internet.
~ Steve Jobs
I was asleep when our plane hit the runway, but the jolt brought me instantly awake. I looked out the window and saw the Rocky Mountains. What the fuck was I doing here? I wondered. It made no sense at all. I decided to call my attorney as soon as possible. Have him wire me some money to buy a huge albino Doberman. Denver is a national clearing house for stolen Dobermans; they come from all parts of the country.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I rode out of the stables on top of an eight-foot-tall donkey that looked like she had robbed a Holstein cow and was now wearing the stolen clothes.
~ Ilona Andrews
'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride!
~ Antony Starr
Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.
~ Steven Rattner
I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
~ Nathan Fillion
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
~ Frank Abagnale
I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.
~ Charles Clover
There was a feyness about him, something tragic, which might be his stolen heritage.
~ Storm Constantine
There's no one to mourn for a life that love stole.
~ Phar West Nagle
Legend has it that one of the earlier kings had it designed for his cousin's bride. It was part of a collection in the national museum until it was stolen. There have been replicas floating around for years." "I didn't know it had such history attached to it. That's fascinating," Ella murmured, eyes twinkling as she studied the necklace. "I'll have to look into it some more when I get home.
~ Carly Phillips
You want Interpol statistics? Three quarters of stolen art end up transited through a minimum of three countries, exchanged for goods including arms and gold. Recently, someone traded art for a restaurant chain in Slovakia." A means to an end. A kind of currency.
~ Cara Black
Contemporary euro-american occupation of Indian land is an important continuing benefit of the conquest that must be accounted for in the euro-american moral and spiritual inventory. In euro-american legal discourse, a recipient of stolen property is just as liable as the actual thief.
~ George E. Tinker
They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
~ Padgett Powell