Quotes about taken
taken men giving
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent. Samuel Adams
taken reality thinking
I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image. Tariq Ramadan
taken world myth
You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously. Ta-Nehisi Coates
taken darkness speak
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness. T. S. Eliot
taken thinking psychics
What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound. Sylvia Browne
taken years earth
It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us. Sylvia Earle
taken thinking air
Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.
taken together lifetime
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.
taken emotional artist
A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile. Sylvester Stallone
taken intelligent intellectual
I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.
taken population awareness
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. Susan Sontag
taken seduction found
To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.
taken writing body
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
taken political remember
Remember, freedom is always taken, never given. Scott Adams
taken land world
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
taken thinking world
I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats. Joseph Kosinski
taken firsts
First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously. Konrad Adenauer
taken justice authority
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected. Kofi Annan
taken body months
After five months I swore I’d never get pregnant again. I got so huge and it felt like someone had taken over my body. Kim Kardashian
taken fulham term
I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms. Kevin Keegan
taken errors justice
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. Kelly Miller
taken player disease
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player. Keith Jarrett
taken fighting media
The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this. Katy Perry
taken believe people
Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
taken years what-if
It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up. Rainbow Rowell
taken thinking listening
I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it. Raghuram Rajan
taken commitment firsts
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. Ralph Waldo Emerson
taken men circles
You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
taken university
Everything was going through my mind. Everything that I've put into this university and everything that I've taken out of it.
taken gone broke
I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke. Robert Kiyosaki
taken two worry
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going. Ernst Toller
taken home doe
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.
taken giving enthusiasm
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.