Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 261 till 280 of 1268.

  • Arne Jacobsen Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Oscar Wilde Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • A. Alfred Taubman God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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  • Machiavelli God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Arthur Erickson God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Joy Baluch God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.
    Joy Baluch
    Australian politician (1932 - 2013)
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  • Anita Brookner Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • George Eliot Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benito Martinez Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
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  • Mark Twain Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • François Fénelon Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • William Wordsworth Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Arnold Bennett Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Edgar Bergen Hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
    Goldman - Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes (2001)
    Edgar Bergen
    American actor and comedian (1903 - 1978)
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  • Charlie McCarthy Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
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  • Richard Thalheimer Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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  • Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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