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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

Art, Society, Him

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Everything, Remember, Off

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle

Power, Sense, Matter

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

Success, Forward, Moving

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Politics, Money, Become

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

Anger, Him, Before

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw

Gentleman, Puts

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Freedom, Thought

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.
Michael Jordan

Money, Live, Bad

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

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

Design, Reality, Place

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Care, Everybody

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold

Smart, Ignorant, Prove

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
Albert Camus

Place, Wait, Last

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

Love, Affair, Poet

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Two, Another

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Forward, Mind, Saying

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin

Courage, Failure, Fool

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Writing, Off, Talking

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant

Win, Whatever, Water

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Time, Long, Friend

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Fear, Live

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

Courage, Brave, Others

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs

Power, Today, Revolution

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Before, Half

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden

Character, Winning, Talent

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

Dreams, Courage, Someone

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes

Person, Two, Forgive

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs

Put, Result, Second

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