The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
Lee Trevino

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Barney Frank

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Paula Abdul

American Idol has taken over my whole life.
Paula Abdul

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
Paula Abdul

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Red Skelton

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Thomas Sowell

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Gore Vidal

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
Brian Clough