There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Robert Orben

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Bertolt Brecht

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
Charles Stanley

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Willem de Kooning

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
Derek Jeter

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Thurgood Marshall

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Daniel Webster

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Heraclitus

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.
Simon Travaglia

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
Kevin Bacon