To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place and so most poetry today is published if not directly by the person certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself working with his friends.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and as we develop the peace process we continue to use examples from South Africa.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

It has taken a great deal of energy which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Four hours of makeup and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning I get there at three. I wait four hours go through it ready to work at seven work all day long for twelve hours and get it taken off for an hours go home and go to sleep and do the same thing again.

Our son is in school now. You know he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

As one gets older it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their own hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words mine and thine were taken away.