Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Epictetus

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Epictetus

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

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

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
Joan Rivers

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
George W. Bush

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

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

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

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin