| "Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking." »Tim McMahon |
| "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." »Margot Fonteyn |
| "Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind." »Thomas Campbell |
| "Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner |
| "Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." »Unknown |
| "If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole |
| "And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green |
| "You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time" »Bob Moawad |
| "If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Necessity is the mother of taking chances." »Mark Twain |
| "If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst." »Thomas Hardy |
| "The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step." »Unknown |
| "You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people." »Melissa Timberman |
| "You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." »Shakti Gawain |
| "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse |
| "People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them." »Anatole France |
| "It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill |
| "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior." »Francis Bacon |
| "By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." »Aldous Huxley |
| "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." »Anatole France |
| "I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport |
| "When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break." »Akhenaton |
| "I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "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." »Barnaby C. Keeney |
| "It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets." »Dennis Martin |
| "I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't." »Dodie Smith |
| "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." »Paul Valery |
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