#take

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#direction #good #good deal #know #lies

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. ↗

— Bille August

#big #century #come #dream #eve

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#away #brought #current #events #passing

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#history #language #merely #place #takes

I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#against #am #anarchist #close #else

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#because #first #i #money #place

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is. ↗

— David Axelrod

#aisle #awhile #best #election #ferment

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#i #issue #mother #only #pro-life

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#congress #dispute #early #get #having