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- A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. ...
- A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ...
- A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does...
- A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is...
- A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of...
- A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. ...
- A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain...
- A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, “I take thee...
- A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances...
- A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you...
- A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. ...
- A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour...
- A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care...
- A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of...
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all...
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to...
- A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about...
- A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright...
- Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out...
- Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of...
- Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times...
- Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion…. Art is the accomplice of...
- All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take...
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must...
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think...
- All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must...
- Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way....
- And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully...
- Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. ...
- Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. ...
- As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. ...
- As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought...
- As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self...
- As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought...
- Ask a lot, but take what is offered. ...
- Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - to be true to ourselves. ...
- Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take...
- Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out...
- Beware how you take away hope from any human being. ...
- Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. ...
- By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a...
- Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot...
- Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. ...
- Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by...
- Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ...
- Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither...
- Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet...
- Desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is...
- Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ...
- Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with...
- Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into...
- Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. ...
- Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it...
- Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two...
- Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two...
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. ...
- Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your...
- Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. ...
- During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once...
- Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and...
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle...
- Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his...
- Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and...
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to...
- For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life....
- For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask...
- Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2....
- Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as...
- Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and...
- God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve...
- Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take...
- Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. ...
- Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of...
- Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no...
- He who would leap far must first take a long run. ...
- He's trying to take the decision out of the hands of twelve honest men and give it to 435...
- His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his...
- History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed...
- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law ...
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. ...
- Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ...
- How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its...
- How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?...
- I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous...
- I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to...
- I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. ...
- I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on....
- I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take...
- I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn...
- I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ...
- I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ...
- I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears...
- I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I...
- I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. ...
- I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. ...
- I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity...
- I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The...
- I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by...
- I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I...
- I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we...
- I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than...
- I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I...
- I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day; and take...
- If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. ...
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment...
- If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform...
- If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. ...
- If you hear a different drummer - dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to...
- If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment....
- If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more...
- I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in...
- I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences. ...
- In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. ...
- In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash...
- In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's...
- In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can...
- Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take...
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery?...
- It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting. ...
- It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to...
- It is as hard to take success as it is failure. ...
- It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance...
- It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance...
- It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is...
- It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. ...
- It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have...
- It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. ...
- It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor....
- It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but...
- It used to take courage - indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - to leave the...
- It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to...
- It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. ...
- I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show...
- Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of...
- Let every fox take care of his own tail. ...
- Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and...
- Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it. ...
- Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who...
- Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke. ...
- Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes...
- [Like] dealing with Dad - all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrush) ...
- Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how,...
- Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both...
- Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight. ...
- Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to...
- Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with...
- My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the...
- My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those...
- Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and...
- Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly,...
- Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with...
- Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very...
- No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power...
- No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. ...
- No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ...
- No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fear;But, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now...
- Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. ...
- Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes...
- Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful...
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ...
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. ...
- Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose...
- Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold...
- On packing: Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the...
- One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings...
- Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they...
- Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take...
- Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. ...
- People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. ...
- Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were...
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take...
- Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are...
- Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular...
- Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider. ...
- Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact...
- Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. ...
- Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions,...
- Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ...
- Someone must stand up to those who say, “Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of...
- Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment. ...
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who...
- Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it...
- Take a note of that; his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to...
- Take a second look... It costs you nothing. ...
- Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House...
- Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by...
- Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. ...
- Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills. ...
- Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people,...
- Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth...
- Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step....
- Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ...
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ...
- Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ...
- That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you....
- The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it,...
- The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. ...
- The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it....
- The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense...
- The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love...
- The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails...
- The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are...
- The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not...
- The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested,...
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that...
- The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to...
- The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. ...
- The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests...
- The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take...
- The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ...
- The path to success is to take massive, determined action. ...
- The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. ...
- The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. ...
- The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil service...
- The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but...
- There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to...
- There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and...
- There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and...
- There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy...
- There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a...
- There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an...
- There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,...
- There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,...
- There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's...
- There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take...
- There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take...
- There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get...
- They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it! ...
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good,...
- To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be...
- To get to heaven we must take it with us. ...
- To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state...
- To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress...Now more than ever, we...
- To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive...
- Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of...
- We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future,...
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for...
- We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ...
- We must determine whether we really want freedom - whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For...
- We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday...
- We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of...
- We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care...
- We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care...
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no...
- We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves. ...
- We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it,...
- What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. ...
- What do you take me for, an idiot? ...
- What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces … trivialities. But here they...
- What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you...
- What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking a television eight hours a day? I think we...
- When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret...
- When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for...
- When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous - a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him...
- When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, Daddy, will you take me to the...
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of...
- When we walk to the edge of all the light we have; And take the step into the darkness...
- When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness...
- When you come to a road block, take a detour. ...
- When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your...
- When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your...
- When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your...
- When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your...
- When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons...
- When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can...
- When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or...
- When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research....
- When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson,...
- When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the...
- Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And...
- Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get you there. The...
- While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. ...
- While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust...
- Why Paul? God already had called twelve apostles of the kingdom? Although Judas had fallen in transgression, the seat...
- Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we...
- You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything...
- You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ...
- You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. ...
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the...
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the...
- You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn't take long to call the roll....
- You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ...
- You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least...
- You never have a chance for your luck to operate if you don't take risks. ...
- You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
- You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know....
- You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of...
- Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can...
- You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. ...
- Doubt vs. Faith Doubt sees the obstacles Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night....
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