Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
Sidney Sheldon

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
Thomas Malthus

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
Sam Levenson

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
Jock Sturges

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
Jock Sturges

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller

I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
Jane Fonda

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley

Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Cesare Pavese

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
Helena Bonham Carter

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.
Daniel Goleman

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Hedy Lamarr

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy Lamarr

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
Justin Timberlake