A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Soren Kierkegaard

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir

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

He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
Mitt Romney

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
Mitt Romney

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Woodrow Wilson

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin

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

It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas

History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein