Taken Quotes

I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that's one of the most important things that I've taken out of that experience.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

Maybe yes, but probably not. At each stage I made what was then the best choice. Having taken that decision, I changed direction and there was no turning back.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

The future has taken root in the present.

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the coming, the sitting - everything is done in full awareness.

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

They are very different. Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality, are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of.

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.