Take Quotes

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.