Quotes about taken
taken opportunity europe
American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of. Emilio Pucci
taken writing poetry
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson
taken character sadness
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. Emile Durkheim
taken thinking vision
Also, to get to work with serious filmmakers on this kind of a movie, has elevated these movies. We were so lucky, as actors, that the crew of directors that we've gotten to work with are totally really super high-end filmmakers. But, Bill Condon had a vision and it was so specific. He's really passionate. I think he's taken the story to another level. Elizabeth Reaser
taken kids age
I just love making sounds. Anything that made a sound, as a kid I was just taken back by and would sit with it for ages and just try and make all different sounds on it. Ella Henderson
taken curiosity astonishment
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. Hermann von Helmholtz
taken moving way
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously. Hermann Hesse
taken laughing steppenwolf
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
taken circles full-circle
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.
taken men years
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
taken judging vagabonds
The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
taken might essentials
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. Henri Nouwen
taken home holy-ground
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
taken cells discipline
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.
taken decision pipeline
The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler Heidi Heitkamp
taken struggle special
For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. Hayley Williams
taken years league
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions Hjalmar Branting
taken ocean blue
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide. Heston Blumenthal
taken character produce
Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character. Henry Ford
taken men guy
I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys. Helen Mirren
taken return moments
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before. Hilary Mantel
taken acting economic
When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies. Hilaire Belloc
taken men hands
The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.
taken inquiry assumption
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. Henry James Sumner Maine
taken light friendly
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. Henry James
taken people giving
Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives. Henry Cloud
taken lines knickers
I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without. Helena Christensen
taken ribs should
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life. Helena Bonham Carter
taken writing thinking
I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much. Helen Fielding
taken mastery masters
Mastery is often taken for egotism. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
taken pieces construction
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
taken men grieving
The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.
taken sky tree
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.