Stealing Quotes

• The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on; it's not quite the same as cyber-warfare. They are regarded as related. The Chinese are trying to steal an economic march on the West, which is a consequence of the fact that we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China in the 1990s.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Consequence
  • Stealing
  • Espionage

• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Soul
  • Oneself

• We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Ideas
  • Stealing
  • Shameless

• Someone has to really like you to go out there and physically get your CD. Shout out to everybody who actually paid for the CD. A lot of people don't realize that's how we live, that's our job. When we people take music from us, that's just like taking food off of our table and it's not cool. It's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into the music and those lyrics. To have people just go and steal it, it doesn't feel well.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Realizing

• I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Stealing
  • Golden
  • Vessels

• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Break

• My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Remember
  • Stealing
  • My Name

• Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Music
  • Stealing
  • Intellectual Property

• I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream.

  

  Carl Brashear
  • Dream
  • Stealing

• What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Social
  • Vote
  • Politician

• I became alcoholic at around age of 13 or 14. I was full-blown. Every day we would hide the alcohol, stealing from stores or stealing it from our parents and hiding out in dirt fields and drinking it before school and after school.

  

  Reginald Arvizu
  • School
  • Drinking
  • Hiding

• Holding back is so close to stealing.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Stealing
  • Holding

• Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Men
  • Night

• I've been bumped, I've had to go up after them, I've had stuff thrown at me, I've been booed. I've had people steal from me and lie to me.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Lying
  • Stealing

• Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.

  

  Geoffrey Miller
  • Violence
  • Philosophy
  • Selection

• Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Reason
  • Found
  • Arguing

• Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?

  

  Kiersten White
  • Self
  • Stealing

• In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Night
  • College
  • Magic

• If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Working
  • Stealing

• With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.

  

  Catherine Austin Fitts
  • Clever
  • Labor
  • Inflation

• My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Father
  • Causes
  • Fishes

• Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Play
  • Said
  • Streets

• When I have an idea, I share it with everyone. People say someone will steal my idea, but it's not like I invented something that will replace the toilet. I tell people to get their feedback. Will they buy it, help me improve it, or tell me it's already been done? If someone else is excited, he or she might buy into the business.

  

  Cameron Johnson
  • Helping
  • Excited
  • Stealing

• Gambling generally leads to stealing.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Stealing
  • Leads
  • Gambling

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