Taken Quotes

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.