Quotes with do-take

Quotes 941 till 960 of 1256.

  • Boy George The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • C. J. Cherryh The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Junot Diaz The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • George Edward Woodberry The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Michel Faber The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
    Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Albert Camus The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Aldous Huxley The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Maris There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Carol Moseley Braun There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Ann Oakley There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books ... which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
    Works (1913)
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bob Woodward There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Carl Honore There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Henry Ford There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Indira Gandhi There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.
    Indira Gandhi
    Indian stateswoman (1917 - 1984)
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