#taken

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#comprehension #great #lack #literally #meant

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready. ↗

— Ellen Malcolm

#president #ready #really #taken #time

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#before #had #inquiries #inquiry #jurist

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #lot #mean #other #preparing

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#against #battle #dynamic #element #obstinate

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. ↗

— John Mayer

#i #may #never #psychologically #sinister

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#bad #captive #go #idea #might

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#child #fall #i #love #pantomime

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared. ↗

— John Mica

#attacks #be prepared #billion #bombings #buses