Taking Quotes
5478 Taking quotes by 3781 unique authors
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Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much…
— Dorothy Stang
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Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's…
— Alice Waters
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Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching…
— Swami Vivekananda
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An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida…
— Robert D Bullard
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This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.
— Unknown Author
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My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am....
— Unknown Author
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films.…
— Yash Chopra
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Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
— Brian Tracy
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have…
— Wendell Berry
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An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Getting things accomplished isn't nearly as important as taking time for love.
— Janette Oke
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To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined…
— Richard Kiel
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We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking…
— Vera Wang
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One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions…
— James Madison
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Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do…
— Caroline Myss
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I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not…
— Ronald Reagan
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My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
— Frederick W. Smith
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You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all…
— Joseph Conrad
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I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know,…
— Barry Manilow
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I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room…
— Loretta Lynn
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine…
— Cole Porter
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Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way, in a homophobic…
— Lady Gaga
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