Taking Quotes - page 2

A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. (Smedley Butler)
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. View quote
Mark Twain
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. View quote
Voltaire
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. View quote
John D. Carmack
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. View quote
Shonda Rhimes
I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me. View quote
Eva Herzigova
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. (Agnes de Mille)
The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. View quote
Robyn Davidson
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. View quote
Tom Clancy
No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously. View quote
James Carville
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps. View quote
David Lloyd George
"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all). View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. View quote
Simone Weil
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them. View quote
Karen Blixen
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. (Ambrose Bierce)
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. View quote
Michael Korda
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak. View quote
David Boreanaz
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. View quote
Betty Friedan
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. View quote
Charles Wolfe