Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 941 till 960 of 1268.

  • Ronald Reagan The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Brent Sexton The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Phillips Brooks The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Bob Seger The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • 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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  • Florence King The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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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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