Quotes About Taking

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Who really will be taking? And who will be giving? Whose pleasure will be ultimate? And does any of this really matter?

they're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Urgency is characterized as impetuousness, while risk management is defined not as taking the right risk, but as avoiding risk altogether.

You're taking umbrage like a tart whose lack of chastity has been pointed out to her.

The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.

I am proud to join the Freedom from Big Tech Caucus, which is aimed at squarely taking the fight to Big Tech on their long history of abuses.

I choose to steal what you choose to show And you know I will not apologize— You're mine for the taking. I'm making a career of evil… Blue Öyster Cult, "Career of Evil" Lyrics by Patti Smith

with every action theres an equal opposite reaction. With every problem, there's a solution: just a matter of taking action.

I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.

Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.

How generously they shower us with food, literally giving themselves so that we can live. But in the giving their lives are also ensured. Our taking returns benefit to them in the circle of life making life, the chain of reciprocity. Living by the precepts of the Honorable Harvest—to take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift

The job is never over; it simply changes from one task to the next. What I'm looking for, I suppose, is balance, and that is a moving target. Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.

What I'm looking for, I suppose, is balance, and that is a moving target. Balance is not a passive resting place - it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the taking out and the putting in.

I know why I had an affair." Lucinda sniffled. "I think I was taking care of Caitlin for so long, then Mom got sick, and I'm not complaining, but you know, I just thought, life is so short. Anything could happen, I could get sick, I could die. I needed to do something for me, and when I met him, it was all about me, and only me.

But I traffic a little in 'conspiracy theories' as we used to understand them, ones that put groups and systems back into the situations where individuals were taking the rap.

the very idea of taking a risk that was not demanded by circumstances was repugnant to him.