To Take Part In Quotes

#1. I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.

Emil Brunner

#2. Henri J.M. Nouwen wrote about 'wounded healers.' I've come to see that there's no other kind. We are all wounded, and we are all called to take part in what God is doing to bring healing to those around us.

Mary Lou Redding

#3. Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art ... It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.

Joanna Macy

#4. To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.

Ahmed Sekou Toure

#5. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ...

Christopher Hitchens

#6. A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

Richard Avedon

#7. I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.

Gloria Estefan

#8. It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#9. Your coming to Christ is not for you to fill up the seats or to take part in rites

Sunday Adelaja

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

Edna Ferber

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Audre Lorde

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Jacques Rogge

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Thomas Jefferson

#21. 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

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

Che Guevara

#23. Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage.

C.S. Lewis

#24. I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

Ian Somerhalder

#25. Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Louis MacNeice

#26. The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I'm good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.

Ted Nugent

#27. The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

Klaus Fuchs

#28. I actually didn't have a quincenera, but I did get to take part in one for my cousin. I've just never really been into parties.

Cierra Ramirez

#29. I wanted to take part in the Women's Aid Real Man campaign because domestic violence affects so many women and children during their lifetime and I think it is important to stand up against what is often a hidden crime.

Duncan Bannatyne

#30. Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.

Ralph Lauren

#31. If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Ezra Pound

#33. A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.

Lionel Fanthorpe

#34. Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government.

Vladimir Putin

#35. I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

Tipper Gore

#36. I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Edward Abbey

#37. As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

Kurt Huber

#38. It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Roger Milla

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Yannick Noah

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

Plato

#59. 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

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

Malala Yousafzai

#61. 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

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

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

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

Natalie Du Toit

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. [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

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

Pope Pius XI

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

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

Paulo Coelho

#79. 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

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

Wayne Earl

#81. 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

#82. In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?"
"You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

Julia Quinn

#83. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Roger Lowenstein

#84. I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point, and I'll be at the age where to do another trilogy would take 10 years. I'd always envisioned it as six movies. When you see it in six parts you'll understand that it really ends at part six.

George Lucas

#85. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

#86. Sometimes the scene is a sad scene but you have to play it with a laugh to find out that that doesn't work or that there's really a part of that in it, and that's what rehearsal is for, to take that time.

William Fichtner

#87. It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Charles Edison

#88. In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be
and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#89. Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work.

Sara Sheridan

#90. We don't want to have a child that has many illnesses, and that will pass away after a few months. A child must have a good environment, and parents that will take care of it.
[...] It [a Kurdish state] must be a part of stability in this area.

Fuad Hussein

#91. I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

Jensen Ackles

#92. The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

Thomas Paine

#93. An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

Michelle Obama

#94. The dripping ... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.

Keith Haring

#95. Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what you want and take the steps to achieve it, even if that sometimes means playing gigs in tiny clubs.

Vonda Shepard

#96. When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Prince Andrew

#97. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

Mao Zedong

#98. Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

Robert Genn

#99. Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.

Mary-Louise Parker

#100. I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.

Layne Staley