#taken

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attitude #become #can-do #disenchanted #example

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#after #canada #consequence #did #emigrate

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ↗

— Kemal Ataturk

#sovereignty #taken

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#begun #broken #friendships #never #off

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#beauty #concept #cooperation #entranced #form

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. ↗

— Martin Amis

#cannot #gun #out #recalled #taken

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#exceedingly #live #men #mine #quiet

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. ↗

— Carla Bley

#i #like #lush #out #parts

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#american #american history #been #biggest #congress