Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.
He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
It takes two hands to clap.
The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.
When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art. . . these dismal moods have very little compensation.
Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby.
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.
It takes courage. . . to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture. . . . He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.