Quotes with taking

  • In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
  • I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
  • Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
  • Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
  • The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
  • The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
  • A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
  • People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
  • The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
  • They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
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  • Martin Luther King Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Voltaire In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Bob Ney Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • George Moore Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bronson Pinchot 'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • O. Henry A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Ann Bancroft A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Herbert Spencer A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Billie Jean King A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Carol Shields A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Brandon Lee Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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