#stealing

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#civilized #distinction #drawn #office #people

I unbuttoned my white shirt and reknotted it under by breasts. I felt like one of those circus 'quick change' acts – ta-dah, no more Wimpy Wendy, now we have Slinky Phee rising from the ashes. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#phoenix #stealing-phoenix #change

Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach. ↗

— Seth Godin

#dreams

Xav bounded out behind him. “Yeah, Phee equals You-She squared. I’ve been working on that one: like it? ↗

— Joss Stirling

#phee #phoenix #stealing-phoenix #xav #equality

I got a new car. I just need to put it together. They’re easier to steal piece by piece. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #stealing #theft #funny

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught? ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#darwinism #evolution #infidelity #macro-evolution #macroevolution

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. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#caught #coming #did #food #good

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again. ↗

— Barry White

#got #i #jail #never #off

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

— Jupiter Hammon

#certainly #god #punish #stealing #unfaithful

Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#like #other #people #relationships #stealing