Quotes about taken
taken men animal
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs. Abraham Joshua Heschel
taken thinking space
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression "being points beyond itself" may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
taken men thinking
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities. Abraham Maslow
taken artist people
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react. Alessia Cara
taken artist people
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.
taken home together
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
taken rubbish complaining
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love. Aleister Crowley
taken mean government
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry. Albert Einstein
taken moon men
If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
taken long grew
I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music. Ali Hewson
taken past portions
All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Alfred Lord Tennyson
taken years today
Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great! Alex Ferguson
taken men perfect
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. Albrecht Durer
taken nwo people
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it. Aldous Huxley
taken sunset wind
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them Aldo Leopold
taken progress gains
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
taken men data
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.
taken eye feet
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
taken artist evil
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
taken player chess-game
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game
taken achievement progress
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. Aberjhani
taken discovery may
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster A. R. Ammons
taken today wonderful
Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
taken stuff scripts
When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie. A. R. Rahman
taken believe world
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world? Agatha Christie
taken house bottles
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
taken facts fit
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
taken simple shoes
All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water. Adriana Trigiani
taken
On the day of the funeral, I was just taken by it all - I didn't want it to be forgotten.
taken world misery
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. Jane Birkin
taken acceptance giving
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune. Jane Addams
taken mrs-bennet wife
Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently. Jane Austen
taken ideas confusion
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.