Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive. . . . Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor.
It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.
I think whenever you're around Kanye [West], you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He's always one hundred what he says.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did
If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.
There's a famous story about Dizzy [Gillespie] and Art Blakey taking him aside, and spending a whole night-long talk with [Phil Wood], "Man we believe in you. You can play. So don't be walking around with a frown on your face or whatever, getting yourself into trouble. You have got a gift, and nobody is going to take that away from you. " So that meant the world to him.
The Silicon Valley companies are not understating that they are so politically and socially and culturally central in the world. They would probably never have thought that they would become like this. But now that they are, what are they gonna do about it? I have a lots of friends who work in these companies: it's about taking responsibility.
Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.
I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.
I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.