Stolen Quotes - Page 15

• According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Health, Rights, Years

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• But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

  Emily Maguire

  Letting Go, Regret, Knowing

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  Florence Welch

  Dog, Wall, Play

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• I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Regret, Assessment, United States

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Song, Art, Dust

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• The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

  Sandra Bullock

  Heart, Son, Men

  "Bullock Laughs Off Dating Rumours" by wenn.com, February 9, 2012.

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• Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

  Roald Dahl

  Night, Eggs, Whipped Cream

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• Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something?" asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.

  Ally Carter

  Uncles, Mean, Boys

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• What you have stolen can never be yours.

  Halldór Laxness

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.

  Dave Hickey

  Real, Believe, Men

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• It can be stolen, but never bought. It can be given, but never taken. It can be stepped on, but cannot walk . It can fly, but has no wings. It can sing, but has no voice. It can be broken, but still it work s. It can be left, even while it follows. And though it’s easily commanded, it can never, ever be demanded.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Wings, Voice

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• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  John Milton

  Time, Years, Wings

  'Sonnet' 7 'How soon hath time' (1645)

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• The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Graduation, Inspiration, Forever

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• People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Opportunity, People, Substance

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark C, p. 66, 1732.

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• There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Long

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.68, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.

  John Updike

  Mean, Eye, Space

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• CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

  Argus Hamilton

  Iraq, Directors, Cash

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• I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

  Charles Clover

  Believe, Ecosystems, Healthy

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.317, Univ of California Press

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• My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart.

  Tyne O'Connell

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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• In the new world every position of power evacuated by an arrested and beheaded pedophile or bankster will be filled with a grandmother who has pledged to create heaven on earth for all children, animal and humans with the stolen money we have recovered.

  Roseanne Barr

  Children, Grandmother, Animal

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Class, Cash

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• Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Profit, Ifs

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• Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Consent

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• Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

  Cyndi Lauper

  Secret, Beats, Deep Inside

  Song: Time After Time 2014, Album: She's So Unusual

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• You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Paper, Toilets

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