#stealing

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ↗

— Howard Aiken

#about #any #down #good #ideas

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. ↗

— George Savile

#horses #may #men #stealing #stolen

So you got Phoenix back,” declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. “That’s lovely.” “I’m more on loan,” I muttered. “Yeah, my little library book. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#karla #phee #phoenix #stealing-phoenix #yves

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody--has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#locke-lamora #stealing #thieves #tolerance

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#money

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it. ↗

— Michael Apted

#anything #country #english #exercised #great

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#fix #fragile #gets #money #one thing

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. ↗

— Mike Judge

#basically #get #i #legal #life

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it. ↗

— Mike Judge

#actually #away #far #funny #getting

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#american families #burdens #class #deficit #families