Stolen Quotes - Page 17

• I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen.

  Newt Gingrich

  Texas, Illinois, Doubt

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.

  Sharon Jones

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That was [Joel] Benenson. "We're talking about this election, Kellyanne [Conway]." See, they're in permanent campaign mode, and they haven't come to grips with the fact that they lost. It was stolen from them, or the alt-right did something or the white supremacists came up and did something. They didn't lose.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, White, Facts

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I want you to steal something." I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you." "If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated. My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Voice, Gold

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

  Holly Black

  School, Home, House

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• To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

  Garth Stein

  Life, Joy, Encounters

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

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• I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Years, Punishment

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1387, Dell

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• We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Noses, Species

  Aldo Leopold (1987). “Game Management”, p.31, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

  H. G. Wells

  Doors, Use

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.24, 谷月社

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• If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125

  Daniel Pennac

  Children, Teenager, Mean

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• There is the issue of security. Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our laws like they have to be enforced.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Issues, Borders

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• What have I stolen? Probably money as a kid.

  Cameron Esposito

  Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing

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• Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes only? Could anything be more un-American than the Second Commandment's warning that "I Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."? Not even the Common Law would have hung a man because his grandfather had stolen a horse!

  Frank Zindler

  Horse, Children, Father

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• I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

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• The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Taken, Firsts, Wealth

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• If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

  Shane Claiborne

  Two, Needs, Coats

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States and, with it, firing all of their people.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, People, Leaving

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

  Joe Meno

  Afterlife, Tragedy, Triumph

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books

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• He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sweet, Kissing, Snakes

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.232, Hachette UK

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• We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs

  "Presidential debate transcript: Trump and Clinton, verbatim" by Evan Vucci and Julio Cortez, www.macleans.ca. September 26, 2016.

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• Just consider some of these recent hacks, JPMorgan Chase, massive bank, had 73 million e-mails stolen.

  Donald Trump

  Mail, Hacks, Massive

  Source: time.com

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• Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.

  John Calipari

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Gone, Grows

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Dark, Long

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