They Take Quotes
505 They Take quotes by 414 unique authors
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To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always there when you…
— Kevin Brooks
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We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.
— Tess Gerritsen
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Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's…
— Miranda July
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To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are…
— Suzanne Collins
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They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that…
— Haruki Murakami
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How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
— Philip Larkin
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We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.
— Tessa Dare
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
— Zig Ziglar
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if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight
— Tupac Shakur
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Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And…
— Jason Mraz
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know…
— George R. R. Martin
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
— Seth Godin
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Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult…
— Chelsea Handler
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When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a…
— Robert James Waller
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I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble…
— Heinrich Böll
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Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.
— Michael Robotham
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The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get…
— Neil Gaiman
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People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is…
— David Levithan
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The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.
— Félix J. Palma
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We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed…
— Juliet Marillier
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This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more.…
— Maxim Gorky
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The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures…
— Anne Sexton
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they…
— Robert Southey
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