#stealing

You stole a boat,” she snapped. “What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humour #lost

I just took a little nap. I stole it from an infant.
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— Jarod Kintz

#baby #humor #infant #nap #sleep

If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#believe-in-yourself #ducks #envy #evil-envy #human-nature

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

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arrested #because #breath #catching #completely

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. ↗

— Jerry Only

#cds #kids #now #parents #problem

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

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#stealing #theft #shakespeare

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#stealing #thieves #warning #sin

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#against #before #bush #bush administration #come