Taken Quotes

Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. “Rhine Ashby,” he says. “My wife.

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.

It was as if I had thought all along I was a complete picture and he had revealed I was a puzzle and had taken me apart and put me back together again.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of society does not face problems unnecessary

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

I understood that Valek’s loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.