#taken

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#else #finally #gentleman #i #me

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#beginning #between #could #immediately #misleading

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#lands #limited #more #new #soon

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#entire life #had #him #i #implicitly

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#better things #developing #evils #new #progress

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#calm #coldly #exchange #eyes #given

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #alienation #another #any #been

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#affairs #always #bad #britain #country

I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #being #cut #fangs #had

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius