Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.
Everything takes longer and costs more.
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
There is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.
I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera.
Balding if God's way of showing you are only human. . . He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.