Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Smith

My family is taken care of, I'm taken care of and that's all that matters to me.

Joseph Conrad

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph.

Joseph Butler

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Leona Lewis

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

Leila Josefowicz

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Leland Stanford

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Layne Staley

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

Langston Hughes

Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.

Lacey Chabert

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

John Katzman

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

John Keats

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

John Kenneth Galbraith

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

John Cusack

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

John Cusack

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

John Chadwick

Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.

John Charles Polanyi

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Gayle Forman

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

Lucy Stone

All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken fromus without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.

Lucas Papademos

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

Lucian Freud

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Loren Eiseley

After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.

Malcolm Forbes

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

Malcolm Forbes

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

Malcolm Gladwell

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

Mahesh Bhatt

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

Maimonides

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

Maimonides

It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. ...This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

Gavin Bryars

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.