Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1268.

  • Desiderius Erasmus They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Janklow They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Barbara Deming Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Austan Goolsbee This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Ashvaghosha Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
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  • George Herbert Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • James Taylor Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Butch Trucks To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Scott Reed To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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