#taken

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#democracy #escaping #first #first step #full

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken. ↗

— John Barton

#anything #arrive #deliver #disprove #end

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#apparent #cohesion #ecstasy #ecstatic #finds

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler. ↗

— Mario Batali

#distributed #good #hands #hitler #into

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#life #me #my life #play #taken

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second. ↗

— Hope Davis

#away #children #could #deeply #husband

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#i #i love #love #many #me

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#admit #being #child #fun #happy

Taken out of context I must seem so strange. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#i #must #out #seem #strange

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