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Taking Quotes (page 334)

Shelagh Delaney quote: "Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a..."
Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman's corns, has it? Shelagh Delaney
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. Tom Clancy
Girolamo Savonarola quote: "The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within..."
The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy. Girolamo Savonarola
My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed, which I could lecture against. If you should ever be betrayed into any of these philanthropies, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does , for it is not worth knowing. Rescue the drowning and tie your shoe-strings. Take your time, and set about some free labor. Henry David Thoreau
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer. Charles Spurgeon
You're guaranteed to be lucky several times in your life-it's what you do with it. Young writers spend all their time worrying, in a way that David Gerrold did not and I did not. How do they get to meet the right people? How do they get to the right parties? If only someone would read my script... Forget all that. All these things are easy and will happen. The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's fucking easy. The difficult bit is writing... Steven Moffat
Meg Cabot quote: "Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who..."
Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for. Meg Cabot
The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Georgette Heyer quote: "My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's..."
My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work? Georgette Heyer
I saw a spider-I didn't scream 'cause I can belch the alphabet-Just double dog dare me! And I chose guitar over ballet and I take these suckers down 'cause they just get in my way. Then you look at me kinda like a little sister-You high five your goodbyes and it leaves me nothing but blisters- I don't want to be one of the boys, one of your guys-Just give me a chance to prove to you tonight that I just wanna be one of the girls, pretty in pearls and not one of the boys... Katy Perry
She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly. Rainer Maria Rilke
I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it, smiling when it's absurd and grieved without exaggeration when it's pitiful, is to be cynical, then I suppose I'm a cynic. Mostly human nature is both absurd and pitiful, but if life has taught you tolerance you find in it more to smile at than to weep.[The back of beyond] W. Somerset Maugham
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love. Khalil Gibran
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious."No time. Does it need time to be religious?"Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odon Bar and all that. Herman Hesse
Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings? David Sedaris

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