Takest Quotes

#1. Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

#2. A God you understood would be less than yourself.

Flannery O'Connor

#3. A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Changing yourself is supposed to mean hope, at least according to the self-help books and magazine paradigms, but for me - and I suspect many others - it simply means finding new ways to feel inadequate.

Noelle Howey

#5. Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought

William Shakespeare

#6. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible.

J.K. Rowling

#7. Death is the dance of Life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare.

David Whyte

#9. Strategy can therefore never take its hand from the work for a moment.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#10. My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

Oscar Wilde

#11. I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.

Terri Sewell

#12. You could tell me anything. You could tell me everything, and I'd want to heart it,

Wendy Higgins

#13. She was too young to truly understand our loss, and she was too old to hold in my arms. Yet, I wanted nothing more than to clutch her against me as we faced the burial of her mother.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#14. Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

George Herbert

#15. I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

Lisa See

#16. I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Loudon Wainwright III