Taken Quotes
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.
When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be stolen, lost, or taken away. This is the secret mode of prayer.
...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.
When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.
The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.
Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.
Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.
It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals
Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.
I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.
The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.
I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.
I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song!
If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.
I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.
Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.
The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.