Best They Took Quotes
205 They Took quotes by 184 unique authors
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If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd…
— Phil Angelides
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Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to…
— Michael Shermer
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If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is,…
— Simon Sinek
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Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird…
— George Best
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What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all…
— Timothy Findley
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Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The…
— Tariq Ali
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Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying…
— Jacque Fresco
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I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their…
— Tommy Smothers
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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on…
— Bill Griffith
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Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes…
— John Dryden
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I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd,…
— Brian Clough
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After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The…
— Rose Schneiderman
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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White…
— Stuart Symington
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It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the…
— Unknown Author
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The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with…
— Margaret Way
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The Wright brothers committed themselves to do what no one else had ever done before. They took time to do their homework. They were humble…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as…
— Unknown Author
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If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons,…
— Walter E. Williams
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Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before…
— Louise Erdrich
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Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to…
— Tasha Tudor
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If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take…
— Bernard Jensen
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Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games…
— Roger Ebert
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While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen…
— Fran Lebowitz
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