Quotation Explorer - 'Stolen'

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. - Anne Bradstreet
I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.
My mind: a thousand hungry daughters,my harlot heritage.Marbles: lost, no rescue search.Your heart: blooming thorns,and a stolen grocery cart. - Virginia Petrucci
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen. - Gustave de Molinari
God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen. - Joel Osteen
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts. - Christopher Paolini
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman. - H. L. Mencken
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. - William Shakespeare
When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: "House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day." - Neil Gaiman
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise. - Thomas Wharton
I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird. - Lauren Ambrose as Claire Fisher
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones. - Madeleine L'Engle
There are more stolen bikes in my garage than there are stars in the galaxy. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. - Christopher Paolini
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. - William Congreve
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome K. Jerome
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome K. Jerome
Knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen; it will grow when you try to give it away. - Debasish Mridha
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. - Mort Sahl
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance. - Anne Bradstreet
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - H.L. Mencken
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. - Bertolt Brecht
Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know. - Emily Thorne
Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love.)Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living. - Daniel Pennac
No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society. - Jeffrey Tucker
Magic can be found in stolen moments. - Francesca Lia Block
It's hard to sleep when you have thirty two million quids worth of stolen jewellery hidden under the mattress. - Peter Houston
Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor’s blessings become a Nigerian norm? - Sunday Adelaja
The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie. - Anthony Liccione
Baby you don’t even know I’m falling apartIn your fun and games, You’ve stolen my heart. - Ahmed Ali Anjum
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances. - Jeanette Winterson
Stolen sweets are best. - Colley Cibber
Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent. - Mehmet Murat ildan
I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books. - Alyse M. Gardner
Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints. - Sumner Davenport
When some one steals a small hope from you, you can do nothing, only can see dreams stolen... It's small thing, but means a lot... Waiting for several such moments, when your dreams are stolen......it's life you had no choice just feel it and forget..... - Nutan Bajracharya
Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me. - Tamora Pierce
When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.' - Neil Gaiman
I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen. - Najaf Mazari
Desperately struggling, kicking down other people.Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over.And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills.That's why humans are so interesting... - Yana Toboso
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day. - Neil Gaiman
Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence. - Emily Thorne
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. - Michael Bassey Johnson
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