Retaken Quotes & Sayings

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Those wildly scary stories you tell yourself that give you anxiety attacks come from the same source (your imagination) that helps you create wildly imaginative works of art. — Carrie Bloomston

The staff played hot potato with my call until someone could locate the Person in Charge of Lying to the Press. The PCLP said that the room that houses the base archives is locked. And that only the curator would have a key. And that Holloman currently has no curator. Evidently the new curator's first task would be to find a way to open the archives. — Mary Roach

Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion. — George Herbert

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. — Marcel Proust

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal. — Ardant Du Picq

All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky

I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot. — Jared Leto

Catherine Marshall writes, "Resignation is barren of faith in the love of God ... . Resignation lies down quietly in the dust of a universe from which God seems to have fled, and the door of Hope swings shut."2 — Richard J. Foster

Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not. — Roy H. Williams

Your idea of taking me on a date is bringing me to a hotel?"
"It's more about fucking you in the hotel. — Whitney Gracia Williams

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Dude. Did you just sniff her hair?" Kent asks, with a look of absolute disgust on his face.
"I did." I smirk, uncaring. I traded in my man card a long time ago. "I love how my girl smells. Shoot me if it's a crime. — Siobhan Davis

That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them. — Kirk Cameron

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way. — Holly Black