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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
George Herbert

God, Path, Away

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
Hugh Jackman

Dad, Husband, Powerful

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.
Tiger Woods

Love, Family, Home

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.
Tom Felton

Whatever, Few, Maybe

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.
Tom Felton

Job, Off, Whatever

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.
Tom Felton

Whatever, Happens, Garage

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
Tom Felton

Human, Robot, Butler

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
Terry Pratchett

Long, Game, Person

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Time, Film, Takes

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
Gary Busey

Short, Cut, Shortcuts

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
Bill Hicks

Happy, Someone, Else

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Gertrude Stein

Important, Gave, France

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein

Time, Long, Dark

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

Humanity, Reason, Often

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige

Home, Move, Ball

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov

Ourselves, Seriously

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca

Life, Death, House

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Susan Sontag

Past, Help, Give

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett

Around, Write, Lines

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
Bryant H. McGill

Give, Forgetting

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
Bryant H. McGill

Heart, Justice, Away

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Titus Livius

Men, Fear, Influence

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Charles Baudelaire

Understand, Honor, Hands

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.
Jimmy Carter

Try, Old, Speak

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.
Roberto Cavalli

Morning, Happy, Today

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.
Daniel Radcliffe

School, Door, Trouble

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.
Megan Fox

Live, End, Forget

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.
Cameron Diaz

Life, Morning, Happy

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
Chris Christie

Leadership, Politics, Health

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
Jack Nicholson

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