(1780 quotes found)
“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
William Wordsworth
“I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.”
Cher
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
William Shakespeare
“The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.”
William Penn
“I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.”
Winston Churchill
“Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.”
Bette Davis
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
Coco Chanel
“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.”
Harry S Truman
“You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight.”
Wayne Newton
“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”
Carolyn Heilbrun
