Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 501 till 520 of 1268.

  • Alice Meynell It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • Bill Flores It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Anne W. Schaef It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.
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  • Aslan Maskhadov It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Epictetus It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Branch Rickey It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Ben Shapiro It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bernard Paine It must recognize and hold up before men the moral character of this corruption of the ballot. Bribery is a sin. It is condemned in the laws of Moses: And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. These words are as true to-day as when they were written.
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  • Ezra Pound It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Asa Gray It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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