#taken

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #care #cool #due #further

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#life #must #neither #seriously #taken

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#been #called #had #mariner #old

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

#justice #she #slow #storm #taken

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#canada #day #ever #federal #federal government

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#away #cast #christ #could #death

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#been #got #gullible #had #i

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time. ↗

— David Caruso

#am #boy #deep #ever #everything

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