Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1268.

  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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  • Hesiod Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Bill Bradley Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Blac Chyna Tyga takes King to school, I take him to school - we pretty much split our time with him down the middle. So, co-parenting isn't bad at all with Tyga.
    Blac Chyna
    American model, socialite and entrepreneur (1988 - )
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  • Raymond Holliwell Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Bobby Vinton Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Leslie Fiedler Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Carrie P. Meek Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Bernard Meltzer Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Susan Sontag Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Bill Budge Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Warren Buffett Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • John Donne We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Peter Stephen Paul Brook We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him, if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
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