Quotes about taken
taken mean government
People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent. David Cameron
taken life-is infallible
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. Dave Eggers
taken grateful writing
I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence. David Levithan
taken order people
I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.
taken thinking together
Because you think an explosion has taken place and you're looking at the shards and you say, 'Well, can we put this back together?' And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won't be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way. David Letterman
taken writing america
Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America. Dinaw Mengestu
taken kids home
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. Dick Gregory
taken sides status-quo
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo. Desmond Tutu
taken people
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
taken thirty worst
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen. Delia Ephron
taken thinking poet
I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period. Amber Tamblyn
taken civilization ideas
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world. Amartya Sen
taken humanity important
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
taken democracy world
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
taken choices different
They are very different. Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality, are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of. Amber Heard
taken steps actors
Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent.
taken events lasts
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity. Anthony Powell
taken trying would-be
When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money. Anthony Minghella
taken people caught
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken. Anthony Mackie
taken men law
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own. Anna Quindlen
taken ambition age
From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage. Cillian Murphy
taken play roles
Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention. Angela Merkel
taken learning looks
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.
taken cat acceptance
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time. Angela Carter
taken world commodity
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
taken construction destruction
We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction. Anson Mount
taken kids acting
In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that. Anthony Bourdain
taken cotton pills
I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out? Andy Rooney
taken roots perception
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established. Andy Stanley
taken differences too-much
The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.
taken earning typical
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings. Amy Goodman
taken medicine littles
There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both. Ann Romney
taken
Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.