The Taken Quotes
Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.
We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.
Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.
Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.
Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.