Quotes about taken
taken liberty done
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. Cy Twombly
taken thinking men
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. Curtis Sittenfeld
taken rights family-and-friends
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening! Cyndi Lauper
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 men years
Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone. David Gemmell
taken men people
Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
taken thinking citizens
And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time. David Blunkett
taken america soul
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us. David Jeremiah
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
Jose won't let him come but I would have taken him, Harry Redknapp