The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is what should have been talked about in this assembly, and no one has said a word about it ...Art is inconceivable without risk...
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that ...
Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, you get lawyers to write safeguards into the contract. This is an historic shift from a trust economy to a risk economy. But trust is not a dispensab...
Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement. Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to ...
[first lines] DuPont: In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new ar...
Thorin Oakenshield: You're afraid. Balin: Yes! Yes, I'm afraid! I fear for YOU, Thorin. A sickness lies on that treasure, a sickness that drove your grandfather mad! Thorin Oakenshield: I am not my grandfather. Balin: You are not yourself! The Thorin...
Joel Cairo: I am prepared to pay five thousand dollars for the figure's return. Do you have it? Sam Spade: No. Joel Cairo: But if it isn't here, why did you risk serious injury to prevent my searching for it? Sam Spade: Why should I sit around here a...
If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Proverbs 6:27
It is no good going to the river just wanting to catch a fish; you have to take a net as well.
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
One should not think about it too much when marrying or taking pills.
A man finds what he takes to be small; it will only be big again when he loses it.
Taking water from the same well doesn't make all the wives' gravy taste good.
When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
Good advice once was worth a camel; now that it is free of charge, no one takes it.
After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.
The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey will seem.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
Jim Craig: Wait a second, I've given you all I've got, and now you're pulling the plug on me? Herb Brooks: Have you? Given me your very best? Because I know there's a lot more in you, a whole other level, that for some reason you just don't want to g...
