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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
John F. Kennedy

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix

Live, Here, Whole

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn

Important, Gift, Emotions

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Life, Peace, God

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin

Him, Head, Purse

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Friends, Ourselves, Truly

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali

Down, Brother, Ten

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
Hunter S. Thompson

Care, Lord, Hands

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Fire, Put

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

Through, Eyes, Place

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Life, Hope, History

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Care, Short

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao Tzu

Give, Beginning

Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. Thompson

Ride, Ticket, Buy

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski

Time, Democracy, Between

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

Art, Tell, Water

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

Pain, Laugh, Play

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

Quarrel, Liberal, Side

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett

Place, Advice, Street

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

Laugh, Kids, Beginning

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Eminem

Music, Long, Down

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Men, Battle, Hero

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che Guevara

Death, May, Battle

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

Marriage, Sure, Repent

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Live, Long, Social

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True, Care, Greatest

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost

Life, Whatever, Accept

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

Everyone, Common, Contented

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