Stealing

Famous quotes containing the word stealing:

“All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“This was like stealing thunder from a child.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the end of life but the final saturation with absence.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)