Taken Quotes

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

We shouldn't be too naïve, or taken in by charisma.

When much is taken, something is returned.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within its limits.

It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're there for the sake of having their portrait taken.

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

Absolutely, it's a Sunni area. So the key here, once Ramadi is taken that you have the Sunni tribal fighters, Sunni police in there patrolling the city.

I think we are isolating ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over.

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.