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How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.