I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. Elizabeth Blackwell
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!' Craig Bruce
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890. Charles Tupper
Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame. Thurston Moore
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
John Adams
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. Raymond Queneau
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. Charles Mackay
Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it. Thomas Dekker
At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks. Priscilla Presley
As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years. Dee Hock
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. John Berger
As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest. Peter Singer
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not. Neal Boortz