Take Me Quotes - Page 27

• I wish they would take me as I am.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wish, Take Me As I Am

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• When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Fighting, Wind, Sail

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.178, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, May, Definitions

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• Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.

  Rachel Caine

  Claire, Boxes, Said

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.41, Allison & Busby

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• This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted... again.

  Jay Asher

  Decision, Moments, Granted

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• Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Book, Forever

  "Let’s Stop Talking About Maya Angelou" by Jeff Steinmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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• Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes. “That’s it, Barbarian.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Hands, Barbarians

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Dance”, p.36, Penguin

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• I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

  Eddie Vedder

  Life, Wave, Pearl Jam

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Mar 27, 2012

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• Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help you, then let me. If you don't, then take me to one of those places where human women wear revealing clothing and quickly lose their virtue through alcohol.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Adorable, Alcohol

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.281, Zebra Books

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• And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

  Anne Rice

  Fall, Wings, What If

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• Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

  Marquis de Sade

  Imagination, Atheism, Take Me As I Am

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• When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.

  Melina Marchetta

  Winning, Years, Two

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• For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

  Patrick Modiano

  Summer, Past, Long

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• Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food and that inspires me.

  Laura Mvula

  Moving, Voice, Inspire

  "5 Minutes With...British Singer-Songwriter Laura Mvula". Interview with Alicia Cox Thomson, www.flare.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

  Shelley Long

  Men, Care, Willing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

  Lexa Doig

  Parent, Theatre, Used

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• If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

  Guy Ritchie

  Ideas, The End Of The Day, Credit

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• Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God, my Father! Take me, and do with me as Thou seest to be for Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy service, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy Son.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Father, Son, Acceptance

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 231, 1895.

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• Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  May, Teach, Thyself

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

  Eric Bristow

  Dad, Used, Arsenal

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

  Norman McLaren

  Unique, Film

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• But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

  David Blunkett

  Responsibility, Perception, Application

  "Full text: Blunkett's resignation statement", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

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• They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

  Loni Anderson

  Chance, Ran

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

  Helmut Newton

  Thinking, Guy, Needs

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