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Taking Quotes (page 172)

Emma Goldman quote: "People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence..."
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. Emma Goldman
I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left? Nora Roberts
Phyllis Diller quote: "Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?"
Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance? Phyllis Diller
She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers. Don DeLillo
I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles. Isabel Allende
Edgar Rice Burroughs quote: "You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself..."
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously Edgar Rice Burroughs
You just don’t get it. The point I’m trying to make—the point you’re deliberately ignoring—is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now. Skylar Laine
You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise. Joseph Conrad
Waylon Jennings quote: "Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to..."
Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks. Waylon Jennings
Albert Einstein quote: "Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you..."
Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you anywhere. Albert Einstein
and God was there like an island I had not rowed to, still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked, and I grew, I grew, I wore rubies and bought tomatoesand now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowingthough the oarlocks stick and are rustyand the sea blinks and rollslike a worried eyebal, but I am rowing, I am rowing, though the wind pushes me backand I know that that island will not be perfect, it will have the flaws of life, the absurdities of... Anne Sexton
I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance. Elizabeth Gilbert
The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can but will not, then they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist? Epicurus
Plato quote: "You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the..."
You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument. Plato
Through the windows he could see Mack and the boys sitting on the pipes in the vacant lot, dangling their feet in the mallow weeds and taking the sun while they discoursed slowly and philosophically of matters of interest but of no importance. John Steinbeck

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