#taken

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#edge #knowledge #leap #life #life is a

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play. ↗

— Mike Lee

#basis #business #capital #cause #economy

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#become #comfortable #creative #creative person #curious

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#feminism #inclusive #men #needs #taken

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#been #custer #general #given #had

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#consequence #dull #granted #rather #revolution

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#developed #easy #enough #hotel #hotel room

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me. ↗

— Steven Lopez

#automatic #away #become #could #had

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#duck #held #his #man #merciful

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up. ↗

— George Catlin

#back #clean #deer #down #dress