Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
I could never take orders from anyone.
There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can’t take the neighborhood out of the guy.
Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
I’m the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
I think that if your approach is one where you don’t want to alienate anybody, you’re going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you’re offering to such an extent that it doesn’t have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
When my father was posted to Malaysia, we’d take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.
I am a fairly mongrelized person – you know I’ve been a migrant my whole life, and it’s hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally – this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
I don’t care if someone wants to say something derogatory or spiteful anymore. As I’ve grown older I’ve become wiser to the fact that vindictive people take pride in trying to make other people feel bad. I enjoy my life. If someone doesn’t like what I do, that’s up to them, I really don’t care.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
I have gotten better at saying to myself, ‘Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.’
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.
I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
I’m a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
The first thing I do when I get home is take my shoes off and go barefoot.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.
Pol Pot – he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they’re that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
I think my inner child wants to take over the world.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?
