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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. Schulz

Lie, Night, Sometimes

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wise, Angry, Sick

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
Joel Osteen

Strong, Trying, Sometimes

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi

Life, Love, Moment

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Short, Whatever

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Power, Others, Else

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton

Good, Saying, May

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, May, Enough

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Andy Rooney

Fun, Talk, Dogs

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
Kim Kardashian

Marriage, Peace, Happy

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Time, Thinking, Action

I wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent Van Gogh

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Greatest, Risk

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace

Future, Whatever, Gift

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life, Death, Experience

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

Life, Today, Game

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Salvador Dali

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius

Change, Nature, Nothing

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
Mitt Romney

Money, Power, Support

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh

Great, Again, Rise

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

Different, Quite, Risks

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck

Mistakes, Before, Play

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.
Clint Eastwood

Time, Big, Around

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Good, Yourself

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Another, Means

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates

Choices, Tax, Return

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Children, Heaven, Hands

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones

Women, Husband, Care

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Bill Gates

Time, Reading, Sharing

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
Bill Gates

Money, Government, Often

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