Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1268.

  • Barton Seaver While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Brad Feld While we should certainly be investing in our own STEM education, we should take advantage of the thousands of international students who come here to study and are ready to fill these gaps immediately upon graduation.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • James Joyce While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Barbara Block White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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  • Andrew Johnson Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Helen Rowland Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Art Spiegelman With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Ben Carson With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Britney Spears With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • William Butler Yeats Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Beatrice Webb Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bob Dylan Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Graham Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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