Taken Quotes

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.

Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.

That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

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

It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

You hate me now. I knew you'd be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn't see you die.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.

I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

What happened to him? (Lioness) He pissed me off. (Savitar) Why hasn’t one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness) He pissed me off...big time. (Savitar)

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

There are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft.