Take Part In Quotes

#1. I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

John F. Kerry

#2. Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,
that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose
electronic or printed or audio
is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.

Will Schwalbe

#4. No one has been successful in this 'race course'. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. 'We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. 'We' would simply tell, 'Dear Man, I am not capable.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. We all marveled that we'd gotten to take part in so perfect and courageous and amazing a life.

Wayne Earl

#6. In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.

Paul Heyse

#7. And orgies. It seemed that everyone, at least once in their life, wanted to take part in an orgy.

Paulo Coelho

#8. He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

Milan Kundera

#9. For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

Ronaldinho

#10. I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.

Sam Snead

#11. I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself.

Muhammad Ali

#12. Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

Vladimir Putin

#13. I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#14. The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state's authority than the celibacy of priests challenges the sanctity of marriage.

John Rawls

#15. We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

Corrie Ten Boom

#16. It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

Lena Olin

#17. At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.

Jean Cocteau

#18. War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

Cesare Pavese

#19. As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian life cannot take part in deeds of violence. Of what value then to him are arguments about the imaginary advantages of doing what is morally impossible for him to do?

Leo Tolstoy

#20. Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.

Paul Auster

#21. How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Albert Einstein

#22. I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.

Phil Keoghan

#23. Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses ... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

#24. If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!

Fumio Obata

#25. I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

Jennie Finch

#26. (About events he will take part in) I vaulted today, and I'll throw the discus tomorrow around one o' clock. Then I'll race in the 100-meter final at 3:45 on Saturday.

Trey Hardee

#27. They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

Ann Brashares

#28. It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

Pope Pius XI

#29. Books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

Will Schwalbe

#30. The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.

James Joyce

#31. [on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#32. Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.

Herbert Hoover

#33. Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

Richard Leakey

#34. Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Vladimir Putin

#35. British establishment uses "the royal we," as in, "We think this." You hear a lot of that these days. It erroneously suggests that those who are making the decisions to bomb countries, to devastate economies, to take part in acts of international piracy involve all of us.

John Pilger

#36. The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Friedrich Engels

#37. I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

Natalie Du Toit

#38. The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

Vilfredo Pareto

#39. And the shower of roses spun around me, inviting me to take part in their ever-present waltz.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#40. I scarcely remember counting upon happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour - nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

John Keats

#41. He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.

Charles Wright

#42. Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

Malala Yousafzai

#43. At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

Morton Feldman

#44. The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato

#45. Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Louis C.K.

#46. To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

Yannick Noah

#47. That's when I tossed a coin. If it came up heads, I'd take on Sakamochi and...

If the coin came up tails, I decided I'd take part in the game.

Koushun Takami

#48. If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

S.I. Hayakawa

#49. You may think I'm quite the shallow fellow; which be far from the truth, my friend. I simply take part in the anti-social ways.

Anonymous

#50. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

#51. I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.

Paula Radcliffe

#52. Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a film to express the need for everyone to take part in the protection and preservation of humankind and the Earth.

Martine Epoque

#53. Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#54. A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it's tough. But that's what I'm going to do.

J. Willard Marriott

#55. It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

Jose Saramago

#56. I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

Suzanne Collins

#57. The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#58. Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

John Dewey

#59. Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.

Adolf Hitler

#60. At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.

Peter Capaldi

#61. My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

Lyle Lovett

#62. A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi

#63. I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.

Hugh Jackman

#64. I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

Gary Numan

#65. It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

Mark Rylance

#66. No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Brad Henry

#67. I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

Zach Braff

#68. I heard the waves tumbling in a chorus of doves, inviting me to take part in their vision. A vision from Beyond.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#69. I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

Tyne Daly

#70. I don't even want to be with anyone if there's even a remote possibility that there's a third party at play. Love should be between two people, and if it isn't, I'd rather bow out than take part in the race.

Colleen Hoover

#71. In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.

Yokoyama Sakujiro

#72. The fact that millions of people take part in a delusion doesn't make it sane.

Erich Fromm

#73. Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

Amartya Sen

#74. In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

Pierre De Coubertin

#75. The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.

Louis L'Amour

#76. Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

Jurgen Moltmann

#77. When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

Alexei Navalny

#78. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.

George MacDonald

#79. You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

Oswald Spengler

#80. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#81. The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Christopher Hitchens

#82. Please, for the love of all that is good:
Visit the countries you choose to defend, before you defend them.
Experience first hand the cultures you chose to defend, before you defend them.
Take part in the religions you tell others about, before you tell others about them.

Keith Hebner

#83. If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

#84. We are the dead. Our only true life in in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

George Orwell

#85. Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Louisa May Alcott

#86. The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.

Frank Herbert

#87. I catch sight of Raffe gliding with Beliel's old demon wings above me. He refused to take part in such "human work" as leaving flyers on cars and doors but keeps an eye on us anyway.

Susan Ee

#88. I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ...

Audre Lorde

#89. The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments.
They say the food is excellent

Suzanne Collins

#90. Enemy-occupied territory
that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

C.S. Lewis

#91. His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific slaughter of innocents, when other men, such as Harry Richmond, took advantage of being suddenly unfettered by conventional standards to do whatever the darkest side of human nature desired.

Tom Bensing

#92. I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

Che Guevara

#93. I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mili Avital

#94. It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.

Thomas Jefferson

#95. It's not that the universe wants you to be abundant; it is offering you the opportunity to take part in its abundance.

Ruben Papian

#96. The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Albert Camus

#97. I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.

Theodore Roosevelt

#98. The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

Jacques Rogge

#99. The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

William Blake

#100. The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

Vladimir Lenin