#steal

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#any #away #best #business #minds

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock. ↗

— William Emerson

#conversation #engage #idle #man #planning

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#being #both #computers #control #every

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#fun #i #kind #making #mind

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

— B. B. King

#anything #borrow #i #steals #think

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot. ↗

— Luke Scott

#athlete #case #caught #chance #face

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them. ↗

— Ian Smith

#feed #hungry #i #should #steal

A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#does #good #imitate #steals

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#empire #make #peace #plunder #slaughter

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants. ↗

— Thomas French

#elephants #stealth #life