Stolen Quotes

• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Auctions, Politics

  "Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

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• Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

  Leigh Hunt

  Tattoo, Sexy, Kissing

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• I want a million dollars a year for illegally having my mind read and privacy stolen.

  Amanda Bynes

  Years, Mind, Dollars

  "Amanda Bynes Twitter: Star Wants $1 Million for 'Illegally Having Mind Read'" by Sami K. Martin, www.christianpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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• And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

  Lucy Christopher

  Hate, Hard

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.238, Scholastic Inc.

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• The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

  Ronnie Barker

  Inspirational, Funny, Police

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

  Steve Jobs

  War, Androids, Willing

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

  Mary Daly

  Inspiring, Names

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, School, Humor

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• Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Sweet, Time

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.7, Jerome K. Jerome

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• When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

  Lucy Christopher

  Darkness, Becoming, Easier

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• You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

  Lucy Christopher

  Smile, Faces, Kind

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

  Minnie Riperton

  African American, Soul, Singers

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• Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.

  Robin Sharma

  Disappointment, Past, Thinking

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• Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

  Mort Sahl

  Political, Politics, Conservative

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• If another girl ever steals your man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. REAL MEN CAN'T BE STOLEN.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Girl, Meaningful, Revenge

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• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Heart, Character, Secret

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Lost Ones, Rose, Joy

  Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Libertarian, Anarchy

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• ... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.

  Brassai

  Secret, Spy, Thieves

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• Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

  James Lee Burke

  Morning, Men, Mirrors

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

  Garth Stein

  Live Every Day, Ifs

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

  Peter Wolf

  Thinking, Ideas, Compliment

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