I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.
Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
Gisaku: What's the use of worrying about your beard when your head's about to be taken?
Senator Charles Palantine: We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat.
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.
Why do you weep? Have I taken anything of yours? Only what was mine did I take.
