The Taken Quotes

Opportunities increase as they are taken.

If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness.

When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Vickie is so fat that her baby pictures were taken via satellite.

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

I have had my share of heartbreaks...Though I'm single and my career has taken prescedence, I'm ready to mingle now.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.