What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser

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

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

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