Taking Quotes (page 326)

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• soul
• she
• world

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise. Plato

• humanity
• fall
• people

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands. Che Guevara

• love
• search
• forever love

Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. Kurt Vonnegut

• art
• energy
• fate

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. H. G. Wells

• kindness
• men
• evening

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em. Harper Lee

• dance
• skin
• dancing

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones Tom Waits

• enough
• enough is enough
• eyes

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing. Flannery O'Connor

• take
• takes
• were

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical. Robert A. Heinlein

• own
• others
• takes

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• anchor
• sea
• may

You are going to take the high sea of the world; change not, on that account, patron or sails, anchor or wind. Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously. May the favorable wind of celestial inspirations ever fill your vessel's sails fuller and fuller and make you happily arrive at the port of a holy eternity. Saint Francis de Sales

• life
• serious
• allowances

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously. Tristan Tzara

• earth
• evening
• earth day

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand Haruki Murakami

• immediately
• long
• immediate

Immediate gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher

• enough
• mountain
• thinking

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. Terry Prachett

• death
• car
• liked

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go. John Piper