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Quotes About Taking

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?
~ Bob Dylan
I don't know the reason, but the reminder of what life is comes so timely at the moment of taking leave of it and on the threshold of its return.
~ Boris Pasternak
They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
In a world of fugitives The person taking the opposite direction Will appear to run away.
~ T.S. Eliot
The world is frenzied—giving and taking.
~ Julianna Baggott
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
~ Kahlil Gibran
He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc
~ Karen Abbott
It is his ultimate lie, Son of Honor. The lie that says you have no choice. The lie that there is no more journey worth taking.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The government never lends or gives anything to business that it does not take away from business.
~ Henry Hazlitt
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
~ Lynsey Addario
THE MOST HURTFUL BELIEF: We live in a world where we are taught that we get by taking.
~ Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Humans take. They plough with iron. They ravage the land.' 'Some do, I'll grant you that. Others put back more'n they take. They put back love. They've got soil in their bones.
~ Terry Pratchett
Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.
~ Tom Tancredo
All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final endgame.
~ Steven James
He had never been keen on providing sustenance, only taking it.
~ Storm Constantine
Hey, Stone," he said. "Thanks for taking my case." ingly good suit. "Hey, Stone," he said. "Thanks for taking
~ Stuart Woods
It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.
~ Dennis Banks
The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.
~ Jeffrey Fry
Taking just makes me feel like I'm dying. Giving makes me feel like I'm living.
~ Mitch Albom
If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
~ Mitch Albom
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.
~ Carrie Fisher
I have a mentality that is really taking off all the pressure.
~ Charles Leclerc
Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.
~ Kenneth Patchen