Quotes about taken
taken afraid-of-life ashamed
And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine. Jack London
taken intelligent hands
I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands. Jack Nicholson
taken mean liberty
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. Jack Kevorkian
taken party black
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off. Jack Kemp
taken quality body
Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally. Isaac Newton
taken opportunity should-have
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself. Harrison Ford
taken sin guilty
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ... Hannah More
taken thank-god goes-on
Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show. Guy Maddin
taken artist roles
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists. Guy Kawasaki
taken done starters
I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while. Greg Daniels
taken party two
You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry. Glenn Greenwald
taken important journalism
Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.
taken careers two
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career. Ginger Baker
taken doors years
And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend. Harry Chapin
taken rights government
Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken. Harry Browne
taken
I have not yet taken 'No' for an answer,
taken brain century
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. Neil deGrasse Tyson
taken adventure animal
I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.
taken people political
Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.
taken school thinking
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.
taken eye class
I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department. Neil Gaiman
taken mean thinking
We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken aback. "Well, I should think-" he began. "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?
taken men long
He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.
taken
I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs. John Newman
taken heaven earth
Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him. John Newton
taken believe grace
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
taken trying littles
Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context. John Wesley
taken scorpios police
You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away? John Waters
taken ignorance government
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. John Stossel
taken incentives littles
If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.
taken people reason-why
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. John Stott
taken hangover sleep
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. John Steinbeck
taken
Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has. John Podesta