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taken class littles
I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by. Andy Roddick
taken thinking government
If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages? Margaret Mead
taken rights
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. Jose Marti
taken men rising-up
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. ...[T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world. Jose Ortega y Gasset
taken years four
During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression. Henry A. Wallace
taken men practice
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him. James Russell Lowell
taken long able
It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera. James Purefoy
taken mean thinking
I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"... James Redfield
taken men
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. James F. Byrnes
dark leap last-words
A great leap in the dark Thomas Hobbes
dark thinking danger
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. John Tillotson
dark floor smaller
It was dark and the floor was a little smaller than regulation. Bob Redman
dark tough
It was a tough play for him. It was dark out there.
dark few gone past
It's a comedy, and the past few years we've gone dark musicals.
dark love-is thinking
There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right. Abbas Kiarostami
dark light elements
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark. And it's something that we do - we bring out elements that we want to emphasise.
dark pessimistic telling-the-truth
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. Cornel West
dark men rocks
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth. Cormac McCarthy
numbers members stupidest
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members. Robert A. Heinlein
numbers diversity goal
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. Vernon Jordan
numbers giving done
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money. Henri Cartier-Bresson
numbers donkey score
It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores. Will Forte
numbers france cuisine
Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them. Nathan Myhrvold
numbers trying done
I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom. Bill Gates