Definition of Stealing

Stealing

of Steal

The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.

That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.

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Stealing Quotations

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma Bombeck

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
Waylon Jennings

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Bo Jackson

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Lukas Foss

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
Eddie Izzard

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
Jupiter Hammon

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.
Mike Judge

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.
Mike Judge

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
Aaron Neville

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.
Davey Havok

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
Marty Meehan

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
Michael Apted

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
Gary Wright

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
Jerry Only

The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.
Frank Iero

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
Paul Bremer

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.
Gregory Corso

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
Gary Wright

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
Delphine de Girardin

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Stealing Translations

stealing in German is entwendend, stehlend
stealing in Spanish is hurto

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