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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives.
The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]
For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?
Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.
I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.
I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.
Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.
My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.
It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.
No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.
For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.