It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James

True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry A. Kissinger

He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.
Jo Brand

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Ralph W. Sockman

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara de Angelis

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie

I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus Young

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
Angus Young

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.
Lee Harvey Oswald

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Stevie Wonder