Patricia Briggs Quotes

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.

I'm a clean liver; I'm no thief. Kids go through phases of nicking stuff. I've nicked stuff - most people have - but I haven't nicked anything of significance.

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

I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

I ask myself, 'Why can't a truck driver have the right to carry a gun?' Just think about it; put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver. He nods off at the petrol station... and when he wakes up the next day, his spare tyre has gone.

I had a 325 - a little red sports car, but it got stolen.

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

People will steal it if you don't make it easy to buy it.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

So,” I said at last, staring at my hands. “How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone.

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.

Howʹd you get here?ʺ I asked. She winked. ʺYouʹre not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get people to ‘willinglyʹ lend them.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.