Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1268.

  • Abbie M. Dale To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Brene Brown To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Brent Scowcroft To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Barnett Newman To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Bob Lilly Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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  • Barney Frank Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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