Stealing Quotations

Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

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

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

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

Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

I loved the idea of how all these guys always are stealing other guys' girls and I was like, 'There's no female anthem for a girl stealing another guy's girl,' and that is the coolest thing ever.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations' cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but higher than killing their game. If you've seen big stupid American versions of France's 'Three Men and a Cradle' or, recently, Japan's 'Shall We Dance?,' you can only mutter: 'Guilty, guilty, guilty.'

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.

I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

On the Internet there are no boundaries, there are no doors, there are no countries and lines; it's just the Internet, wide open and if somebody feels like hacking a website, they're just going to do it. There's no personal information on the website, so they're not hacking for personal information, stealing social security numbers or anything, they're hacking just to do it.

I was shooting for a more important number -- 100 runs. It means I've been getting on base. Stealing 50 bases is a great accomplishment. I'm pleased with my work ethic to get here.

When the judge looked at the evidence and saw how blatant the stem cell opponents were in stealing the codes and information from our Web site, he said that it was an obvious and intentional attempt to confuse the public. They're willing to use every tool of deception and disinformation to accomplish their goals.

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

One time when I was working, earlier in the night we had been given notice by the UP to be on the lookout for a gentleman who was possibly stealing bikes. It was around 2:45 in the morning that we actually saw him. As soon as we went to radio it into base, the UP surrounded Epsilon (where we saw him at).

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.

Now, they know how we feel. We finally stole one from them like they have been stealing from us. (Last night) was our time.

People would go right back to stealing music.

If they are allowed to unilaterally change the copyright law and copy anything unless somebody tells you 'no,' it will be impossible for people in the intellectual property community to operate. They keep talking about doing this because it is going to be good for the world. That has never been a principle in law. They 'do no evil' except they are stealing people's property.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

I wouldn't believe anything that man says. He's a thief. He was stealing from the company.

I could see stealing bread and milk if your children were hungry, ... But these people are scum.

I can totally see why Ricky would be bummed about people accusing him of stealing an idea he came up with himself. But this is a matter of people having the same idea, and I assure you we weren't aware of the movie when we did that episode. And I don't agree with Peter's point that you should back off if you have an idea and find someone else has it too.

I don't remember Little Joe ever stealing a car,

I don't think it would make much sense if the money has to come from development. It's like stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.

I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

He was everywhere the ball was. He was stealing the ball, blocking shots and getting rebounds.

I'm always looking for a steal. That's my specialty. Stealing the ball is what makes me go. Our team is built on defense and creating turnovers, and we practice that a lot. We like to play defense.

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

We're pretty young as a sport. If you look at the men's game way back, it was just a one- or two-team tournament as well. It's a long process, but they're getting there. If we're not playing sharp, I could see Sweden and Finland stealing a win on us.

I sat down with Gerard and we brainstormed, and the children being stolen started coming in as a motif, so we started stealing some of the aesthetics from 'The City of Lost Children' sort of that surreal atmosphere. The Watchers and the resistance, that was always in my head, but it got more refined. Gerard was helping me get the details down so it would feel right. It came together after that. We just started honing it until it felt like it was all working.

Stealing 50 bases is a great accomplishment; I credit my work ethic. I thanked all of my teammates because they let me steal the bases in front of them.

Stealing another person's property is theft, it's against the law and breaking the law must carry consequences or no one will think twice. Theft undermines the ability of the music companies to invest in the new bands of tomorrow and deprives labels, songwriters and musicians of their hard-earned royalties.

Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.

Stealing bases should be a big part of my game. I should at least have 20.

Stealing isn't just speed. Most of it is knowing the pitcher and knowing what a guy does. He might dip his head before he goes to the plate or he might drop his hands slightly before he goes to the plate or his feet are narrow when he goes to first or he might slide-step.

Stealing tapes is not the most elegant, but one of the most effective attack factors. Many companies think about hacking in terms of getting root access to servers, but if they have weak physical security, someone can just walk out the door with a box of tapes.

I was absolutely appalled. The reality is that these guys can profit from stealing the people's money back on July 7, and they're going to profit for some time to come.

Larry played extremely well. He has struggled and he'll be the first one to tell you that. But he's capable of stealing a game by himself.

People are being mugged on the streets. People are stealing cars. People are robbing stores, and nothing is happening." ()

I was kind of fired up about my situation, and it was escalated when I heard they were stealing pitches, and that's my fault,

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing

I think it all comes down to Wal-Mart's aggressive advertising campaign, ... They are being much louder with their campaign, and I think they've done a good job of stealing the 'early-bird' holiday shoppers.

I think it all comes down to Wal-Mart's aggressive advertising campaign. They are being much louder with their campaign, and I think they've done a good job of stealing the 'early-bird' holiday shoppers.

I think it is irresponsible leadership to keep stealing from that fund, and it's got to change. We are seeing such a shortage of affordable housing that we are losing our work force. We need every dime we can get.

Today we found one pirate -- but we know there is a fleet of them out here and in every other ocean, stealing fish every day.

Unfortunately you don't know if you've been had a lot of times. Hopefully this will protect us from someone coming in and stealing those secrets.

Two years ago, the US accounted for over half of all spam sent to the world - now it is less than a quarter, evidence which confirms that more Americans are waking up to the need to protect their home computers from malicious hackers. More and more viruses, worms and Trojan horses are being designed to take over innocent users' computers with the intention of stealing information and sending out junk email campaigns.

Those kinds of bathrooms are very challenging. In most cases, with one that is smaller than 5-by-7 (feet), you will have to make it bigger, by stealing space from an adjacent closet or hallway.

To go from working in a prison to living there is a serious reversal of fortune, ... Stealing from inmates is both outrageous and ridiculous. I hope this case, along with our other numerous convictions of public officials in the past three years, will send the strong message that people who embezzle money from the government always get caught, and in Saline County they face severe punishment.

We have to keep stealing some on the road and we'll be OK in the second half.