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Taking Quotes (page 97)

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn
The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions. Hillary Clinton
Dammit, that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life. I wish I had a tape recorder to take it down."Those things aren't made to be heard by the people down below," says Japhy, dead serious. Jack Kerouac
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else. W. Somerset Maugham
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.And men take care that they should. Jane Austen
The old woman had an old dog, but he hardly counted any more. He was so old that he looked like a stuffed dog. Once I took him for a walk down to the store. It was just like taking a stuffed dog for a walk. I tied him up to a stuffed fire hydrant and he pissed on it, but it was only stuffed piss. Richard Brautigan
Malcolm X quote: "If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out..."
If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. Malcolm X
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously."
I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously. Kurt Vonnegut
My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires. Tom Robbins
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end. Flann O'Brien
If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life. Sarah McLachlan
A. A. Milne quote: "Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most..."
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. A. A. Milne
I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man. H. G. Wells
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live. Henry James
Anton Chekhov quote: "If my life can ever be of any use to you, come and take it."
If my life can ever be of any use to you, come and take it. Anton Chekhov

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