Takes Away Quotes
194 quotes by 173 authors
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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
— Pierre Bonnard
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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
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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
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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
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Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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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
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
— Gerald Brenan
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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
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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
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
— William Ralph Inge
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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
Who Wrote These Takes Away Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 194 Takes Away Quotes, led by these top contributors: