Quotes about taken
taken clothes ships
From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had. William Adams
taken aggravation long
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund. Warren Rudman
taken world politics
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. Ronald Reagan
taken men together
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one. Saint Augustine
taken justice politics
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
taken long risk
It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again. Uma Thurman
taken islamic sacrifice
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact, and the appropriate response is two-fold. First, many, many people, even to this day, do take the whole of their scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Secondly, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? Then what kind of lesson could be derived from this appalling story? Richard Dawkins
taken imagination solitude
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. Robinson Jeffers
taken successful thinking
When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you. Robert Redford
taken reason poor
You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away. Robert E. Lee
taken matter
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered. Richard Hooker
taken dying should
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
taken helping-others world
Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others. Richelle Mead
taken angel two
Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.
taken said andrea
I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!
taken hands order
Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection. Richard Avedon
taken miracle existence
Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle. Rebecca West
taken loss reality
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. Timothy Leary
taken policy
Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. Thomas Sowell
taken years political
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence.
taken people succeed
What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
taken waiting today
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! Thomas Pynchon
taken optimism modernism
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. Robert Hewison
taken granted given
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept. Robert Kennedy
taken thinking emergencies
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Robert Baden-Powell
taken made
I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies. Robert Barry
taken intelligent government
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense. Robert Anton Wilson
taken world granted
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
taken idols
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously. Rob Lowe
taken past garden
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates. Richard Leakey
taken thug needs
Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back. Richard Louv
taken roles reckless
I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss. Rhys Ifans
taken wine earth
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine. Richard Selzer