Takes Away Quotes

194 quotes by 173 authors

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. — Pierre Bonnard
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and… — James Buchan
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that… — James Cameron
To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom… — John Gerstner
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. — Elizabeth Taylor
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. — Thomas More
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan
You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I… — St. Catherine of Siena
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay… — Samuel Johnson
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents… — Gerhard Richter
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of… — Nelson Mandela
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the… — William Shakespeare
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one… — Arthur Eddington
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to… — Hilary Putnam
I build molecules for a living. I can't begin to tell you how difficult that job is. I stand in awe of God because of… — James Tour
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. — William Ralph Inge
Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian… — J. Chapman

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