#takes

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? ↗

— David Byrne

#assumption #before #chaos #create #how

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#litigation #middle #middle age #place #sex

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ↗

— William Feather

#children #example #fun #good #good example

I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year. ↗

— Roger Federer

#am #because #champion #coming #confidence

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#begins #end #jane #jane austen #line

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#earth #great #individual #lowest #more

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#downstream #fish #float #live #remember

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. ↗

— John Clayton

#foolish #guess #i #judgments #like

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes. ↗

— John Clayton

#early life #exposing #fervent #following #hope

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#avoid #each #formulae #letting #make