He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.


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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO
He who steals once is always a thief
SPANISH PROVERB
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS
He who buys what he doesn't need steals from himself
SWEDISH PROVERB
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
UNKNOWN
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
EDVARD MUNCH
In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.
LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA
That person is a failure who steals the science of a scientist and claims that he is the owner.
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH
He always gets it done. If it's not scoring, it's assists, it's steals, and he always has a big nigh...
ANTHONY ANDREWS
His leadership is outstanding. He's got a feel for things. He had 10 steals against Carlson, and tha...
BRIAN BATES
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
A good composer does not imitate; he steals
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which no...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.
TOM VILSACK
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN
Nobody cares about who gets more points, who gets more steals or more assists. As long as we win, we...
BETHANY HORNSBY
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slav...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The lover steals a kiss. He incurs life imprisonment. (L'amoureux vole un baiser. - Il encourt perp�...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through brib...
JOHN LE CARRE
Matt hustles a lot and is just a great athlete. He doesn't have outstanding basketball skills, but h...
GARY BALLESTRINI
Saddam Hussein is a congenital liar, and he cheats and he steals and he cannot be allowed to defy th...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
YUSUF ISLAM
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
CAT STEVENS
A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend
PARIS HILTON
A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
PARIS HILTON
He does things to jump start us. He so active on the defensive end anticipating, creating tips and s...
DON BYRON
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Flores was a sparkplug for us. He didn't just score. He got a couple steals and he got some points.
JEFF BRIMHALL
There was something in his belt buckle ? a bullet or a fragment.
FRANK PASQUARELLO
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
GEORGE HERBERT
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK
Tate played a great game. Not only his scoring, but he had steals in big spots. He scored and he got...
JOEL FEY
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion; '...
FRANCESCO BERNI
Om is the presence which steals away. It steals away the ordinary mundane existence of strife, strug...
BANANI RAY
People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL
You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Sometimes you get easy shots and that is what gets you going. That's our formula: Get steals, get ea...
BREVIN KNIGHT
In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA
He's a great player. He brings so much to our team. He knows how to score, pass and get some steals....
MICHAEL TELLER
He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When a man lies, cheats or steals, a part of his soul dies.
TROY J. GAINEY
The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of a p...
GRAHAM ALLISON
The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief, He robs himself that spends a bootless gri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grie...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy...
AL CAPONE
A fox may steal your hens, sir, / . . . If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir, / He steals your whole estate...
JOHN GAY
A thief believes everybody steals.
EDWARD W. HOWE
A thief believes everybody steals.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
A thief believes everybody steals.
E. W. HOWE
A thief believes everybody steals.
E.W. HOWE
Peter's scoring average is actually down from last year, but he has increased his output in assists,...
BOB MARINAK
Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.
MEDVGNO
Most people I think feel exterior-wise Churches, unless we yell like 'horton hears a who' that all u...
CHUCK BRIDGES
The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person...
JOE ROGAN
Those two steals he got were eye-openers. That really jumped us out well.
FRANK THREATTS
The man who steals in order to give to God will only get advice from the devil.
VIKRANT PARSAI
That belt got loose. That buckle (mark) lasted until December. He whipped first and talked later.
ANNE MURRAY
I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT
Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL
Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE
Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her y...
EDWARD MOORE
People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL
I actually thought he played pretty well for a guy who had one practice under his belt. I think that...
DICK CORN
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
'Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common; But surely he's without ex...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE
An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile
AL DIAMOND
[Ruebhausen] was a belt and suspenders person he was a lawyer who thought through all his options bu...
DAVID ROBINSON
Our best player was hanging his head. He thought we had already lost. I got four steals and we ended...
ANDRE ALLEN
Well, we know for a fact that his belt was ripped off of his pants and he was strangled with his bel...
JOHN SHORT
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
KHALED HOSSEINI
He who pays homage to those who deserve homage, whether the awakened (Buddha) or their disciples, th...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES
I think Kris (Durham) had one of his better games with four assists, four steals and he shot 75 perc...
GARRY GREWE
When he gets them there, he's a guy who can keep them on their back. He just has that ability when h...
JEFF STOVER
He came up big in the fourth quarter. In that period he had four steals, two rebounds and an assist....
BOBBY SANDQUIST
Izzy gave me the ball. Usually, he steals them all. Today, he flipped it to me and I'll put it in my...
MATT MORRIS
He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsm...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with ...
SRI CHINMOY
Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often...
MALCOLM COWLEY
Beautiful things happen in your life,if you distance yourself from all the negative things.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A black belt is nothing more than a belt, a piece of cloth. Your ultimate goal should not be to get ...
BOHDI SANDERS
He who is feared gets more than his own.
SPANISH PROVERB
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great i...
JOSE MARTI
Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
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Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings
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