Quotes about taken
taken thrown
She's taken everything that's been thrown at her, Jerry Bailey
taken play interesting
It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play. Diane Kruger
taken order things-in-life
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Dennis Prager
taken people demand
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
taken school media
The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.
taken school media
Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.
taken writing training
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel. Dennis Green
taken smooth-sailing design
Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be. Dennis Conner
taken perfect nypd
In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels. Dennis Franz
taken eye home
It's the chauffeur's outfit from hell, right down to the alligator shoes. I was wearing these alligator shoes and this very interesting and haunting chauffeur's outfit, but what really did it for me was the hat. And then, when I eventually get my eye taken out, the gold eye really brought it home for me. Dennis Haysbert
taken technology government
f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years. Denis Hayes
taken worst-case-scenario long
Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible. Dee Dee Myers
taken rain ugly-things
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud. Dean Young
taken men soul
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
taken heart communism
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. Eldridge Cleaver
taken sides curious
It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end. Eleanor Roosevelt
taken roles may
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not.
taken people important
Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people. Edward Abbey
taken democracy anarchy
Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
taken kids guitar
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars. Eddie Van Halen
taken doctors perfection
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it. Atul Gawande
taken medicine doctors
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken? Aristotle
taken may speech
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance
taken unjust stones
When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
taken men care
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
taken fog england
In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me. Ben Kingsley
taken sadness yesterday
They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays. Ben Harper
taken color risk
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
taken wish doe
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world
taken heart views
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. “Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest. Alexis de Tocqueville
taken reality men
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled. Alexandre Dumas
taken throat vocal
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out. Zakk Wylde
taken
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be. Walt Mossberg