The Taken Quotes

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.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Be committed to whatever you're doing. That's something I've taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.

It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.