#taken

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#disposition #improve #preserve #standard #statesman

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars,' but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot. ↗

— Edward Burns

#chances #few #go #head #i

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#already #basis #difference #different #each

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt? ↗

— George W. Bush

#any #attacks #bust #country #course

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#i #i can #liberal #life #maintain

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#believe #christians #creation #description #different

We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#american #american people #bill #bottom #bottom line

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#america #called #confess #contributing #ever

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#arguing #bank #bank robbery #cab #four