Best They Took Quotations
205 They Took quotes by 184 unique authors
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they…
— Paul Ryan
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I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about…
— Charles Schumer
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I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where…
— Sherri Shepherd
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I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as…
— David Ogden Stiers
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As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column…
— Regina Brett
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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just…
— Norton Juster
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place…
— Anais Nin
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They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were…
— Tim Burton
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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous…
— Khaled Hosseini
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his…
— Virginia Woolf
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When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,…
— Charles Dickens
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For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect…
— Martin Amis
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They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when…
— James M. Barrie
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I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap.…
— Cory Doctorow
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Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while…
— Ron McLarty
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They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.…
— A. S. Byatt
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Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into…
— John Burroughs
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Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped…
— Kelley Armstrong
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The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a…
— Edward Lear
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Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day? Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away. Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the…
— John Boyne
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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no…
— Franz Kafka
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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
— Ann Brashares
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