#taken

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer. ↗

— Patti Davis

#ago #been #bush #bush administration #cell research

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#arouse #astonishment #curiosity #each #fact

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#art form #been #cinema #effects #extraordinary

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#how #intelligence #man #shows #smart

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ↗

— Eubie Blake

#care #going #i #known #live

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#could #decision #development #different #important

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#determine #directions #frequently #likely #new

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#actor #adult #child #child actor #going

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time. ↗

— David Blunkett

#angry #being #citizens #every #hadn

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#always #believed #cautiously #done #forward