Taken Quotes

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

Sci-fi has just become an effects-fest, and the story has taken a back seat to all that eye candy. To me, that's not really storytelling; that's just showcasing the latest gadgetry.

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

With all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop.

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn’t exist, now that it’s taken so much of me?

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.