#taken

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#formed #ground #had #kind #looked

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#between #body #communication #country #dwarfish

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#few #i #media #past #spotlight

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#being #hate #i #more #seriously

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#cloud #depression #felt #hangs #i

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#depressed #game #got #i #me

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#conjecture #i #i think #little #more

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#does #get #gift #his #how