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Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I like to take care of myself and know what foods I should be eating.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.