Taken Quotes

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken steroids or HGH.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.

And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.

If you haven't peed the bed, you haven't taken enough chances.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]

I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back into Iraq.

Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Hate is just a form of criticism. You can never truly grow as a person until you’ve taken everything the world can throw at you. Sometimes you just have to let it hit you and move on