The Taken Quotes

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken.” His pressed his lips gently to mine. “And the greatest reward.

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.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.

After five months I swore I’d never get pregnant again. I got so huge and it felt like someone had taken over my body.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Mind and body have taken the journey, but the real home place is your own heart. It is infinite and so wherever you go, you are always Home.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.