Quotes about taken
taken heart writing
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope. Art Buchwald
taken technology reality
I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good. Arnold Schwarzenegger
taken possibility away-from-you
It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom. Azar Nafisi
taken people parks-and-recreation
I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road. Aziz Ansari
taken thinking special
When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.
taken winning opportunity
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity. Charles Evans Hughes
taken science errors
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius. Charles Fort
taken wine air
the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone. Charles Bukowski
taken hated courage-to-love
I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
taken anarchy ruins
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
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 greatness want
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen
taken government self
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
taken mean men
We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously. Eleanor Smeal
taken decision doe
Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her. Edward Heath
taken europe achievement
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. Dominique de Villepin
taken kids writing
There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write. David Bowie
taken airplane doe
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft. Dave Reichert
taken home bmw
The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice. Dave Ramsey
taken superstitions fields
I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes. David Niven
taken people slave
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. Abdullah Ibrahim
taken
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. Jack Abramoff
taken thrown
She's taken everything that's been thrown at her, Jerry Bailey