Quotes with do-take

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1256.

  • Bill Dedman The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Sir William Osler The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Al Gore The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Kofi Annan The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Robert Frost The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Henry James The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Caitlin Doughty The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Charles Péguy The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Ezra Pound The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Angela Carter The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bob Monkhouse The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
    Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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