Taken Quotes

I don't take anything for granted.

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.

I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.