The Taken Quotes

The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among those that have taken the word of Allah in jest.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

Obviously I've taken drugs.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort.” “Oh?” “The taken. The uninterested.” “As opposed to… you, Gabriel?” “Well, yes.

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

Faith is a record of great risks taken.

Love and gratitude can part seas... It can move mountains and it can create miracles. The power of love and gratitude will dissolve all negativity in our lives no matter what the form has taken.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.