Quotes about taken
taken soldier care
I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of. Tommy Franks
taken ideas mad
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals. Tom Stoppard
taken differences long
...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
taken writing artist
Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve. Thomas King
taken play bait
He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook. Thomas Brooks
taken training care
I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff. Rebecca Lobo
taken two care
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness. Ville Valo
taken law people
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause. Victoria Woodhull
taken grief men
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. Victor Hugo
taken writing thinking
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it. Robert Frost
taken heart exercise
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being. Robert Fulghum
taken journey long
Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . —Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH
taken teaching facts
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
taken class citizens
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. Robert Benchley
taken eye remember
I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero. Rita Hayworth
taken wine ideas
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. Richard Strauss
taken grateful thinking
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me. Rene Descartes
taken mean reality
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind. Thomas Nagel
taken men anxiety
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties. Thomas More
taken consideration magnitude
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. Thomas Paine
taken ideas taxes
It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.
taken mean rights
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
taken rights perfect
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
taken men years
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry. Thomas Browne
taken agency culture
Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide. Tom Krause
taken important different
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. Tom Ford
taken mean thinking
People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that. Tom Bodett
taken careers felt
I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then. Toni Braxton
taken writing thinking
The internet has taken away a lot of personalization. A lot of people are writing articles and talking about being able to social network and making these connections but I don't think anything will replace the human connection making an actual conversation to somebody face to face. Steve Mahoney
taken careers cherish
The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish. Steve Largent
taken men naked
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence. Viktor E. Frankl
taken ambition
I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor. Val Kilmer
taken civilization dying
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. V. S. Naipaul