#take

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it? ↗

— Red Grange

#credit #ever #explain #how #i

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#demonize #maintain #need #order #others

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#alive #always #another #best #father

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#any #bush #call #cannot #consider

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#any #bugging #business #care #died

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. ↗

— David Hackworth

#corrupt #feckless #fixed #i #moral

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#affront #brilliantly #bush #capable #could

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back. ↗

— Peter Hain

#attempts #back #debate #deliver #expect

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#act #authorization #barriers #breaking #congress

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way. ↗

— Ted Levine

#along #deliberately #helped #life #making