The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.
Jack Abramoff

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl Sandburg

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
Jesse Ventura

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Ben Stiller

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
Geddy Lee

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
John Cusack

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
John Cusack

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.
Steve Forbes

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Cameron Diaz

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
Billy Sunday

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.
Puff Daddy

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.
Puff Daddy