Taken Quotes

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.

Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

There seems to be some coverage these days that somehow terrorism is not a big problem. Or somehow, national security is all taken care of, and that's just not true.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.

I've always been a missionary and what people don't know is that I've always taken some strategic and eyebrow-raising steps.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK

Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would have won.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

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

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.

I believe Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama, because he understands business. Donald Trump has taken a pro- life position. He believes that we're getting shanghaied by China.

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.

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

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.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.