“Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.”
Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up
Source: Why We Broke Up
Source: Why We Broke Up
“Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.”
Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up
Source: Why We Broke Up
“The is back, and we're going to take the country back.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Speech at a packed Phoenix Convention Cente, as quoted in * 2015-07-12 Trump: 'We're Going to Take the Country Back' Fox News Insider http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/12/donald-trump-phoenix-speech-were-going-take-country-back
2010s, 2015
“We're already taking back the Internet. With your help, we can take back the world.”
Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
“Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?”
Ellen Willis (1941–2006) writer, activist
From a conversation with Alice Echols, quoted by Echols in "Ellen Willis, 1941-2006" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/ellen_willis, The Nation (10 November 2006)
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.
X, 14
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
“Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.”
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882) British saint
Letter to Charles Dodgson, Jan 1851, following the death of Dodgson's wife.
Quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 48