#taken

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. ↗

— James Monroe

#defence #does #european #european powers #injuries

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#body #both #carving #directions #eye

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. ↗

— Van Morrison

#became #days #get #long #long time

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#expansion #family #family structure #generation #measure

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#country #equality #european #extraction #farming

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#affairs #bring #britain #call #change

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#human #human affairs #serious #seriously #taken

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#relationship #substitute #supplied #taken-for-granted #utterly

You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#exchange #had #happening #harry #harry potter

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#anyone #asked #complain #easily #ever