#takes

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#eighteen #me #months #takes #usually

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#find #given #i #mind #myself

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#beast #child #children #cry #mensch

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ↗

— Carl Levin

#cannot #damage #escape #even #hospitals

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#chance #democracy #denying #ignoring #iraq

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#dangerous thing #history #how #i #learned

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#burden #centre #film #first #first time

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them. ↗

— Jamal Lewis

#am #cannot #care #children #disputed

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

#base #before #constituent #definition #general

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#chamber #columns #echo #general #general manager