Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1268.

  • 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.
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    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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  • Carol Loomis There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bob Woodward There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • George S. Patton There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Edward Dahlberg There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Norman Douglas There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Virginia Woolf There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Emily Dickinson There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carrie Fisher There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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