#stealing

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cart #like #shopping #steal #stealing

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

— Wendell Phillips

#eternal vigilance #ever #few #liberty #many

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

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#because #black #country #down #everything

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

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#stealing #thievery #thieves #humor

Even though I know my own name (barely), I still sometimes write my name wrong. Usually it only happens when I write in cursive and am endorsing checks for money I can’t recall earning. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #stealing #funny

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

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

— Cassandra Clare

#humour #lost

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

— Aaron Neville

#cars #had #me #partners #stealing