The Taken Quotes

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

It's not what the mind says. It's how seriously it is taken.

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Believing God's promises the Christian is taken through difficulties of every shape and size - and arrives safely.

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I have pains in my hearts, they have taken my appetite.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?

Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.

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

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.

Obviously I've taken drugs.

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.

I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

Yes, President Romney will not take God off our coins. And that is so important because right now, just like God, the value of our currency really has to be taken on faith.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

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

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.