Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • Jean Rostand One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Iain Banks One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
    The Player of Games (1988) 279
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Sir William Osler One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler: Aphorisms (1961) p. 105
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Byron Howard One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Billy Collins One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Barbara Amiel Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Carmen Electra Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Billy Parish Our personal networks, although often small at the beginning, can still be the best place to start when we want to get a job that makes a difference or take our ideas to the next level.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William C. Bryant Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Anthony Trollope Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • C. J. Mahaney Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Barney Frank Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Albert Ellis People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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