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The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
Written by Howard Gossage
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
Written by Frederick the Great
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
Written by John Wayne
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Written by Rosalind Russell
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Written by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Written by Fred Woodworth
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
Written by Nelson DeMille
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Written by Max Eastman
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
Written by Mary Ellen Mark
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Written by Harry S Truman
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Written by Wallis Simpson
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Written by Robert Frost
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Written by Margot Fonteyn
I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
Written by Theodore C. Sorensen
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
Written by John Huston
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Written by Ada Louise Huxtable
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
Written by Barnaby C. Keeney
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Written by Billie Jean King
Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
Written by Mother Maribel
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Written by Benjamin Disraeli
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
Written by T. S. Eliot
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Written by Honore de Balzac
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Written by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Written by Richard L. Evans
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Written by Mark Twain
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Written by Golda Meir
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Written by Dag Hammarskjold

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