The Taken Quotes
I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.
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.
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.
Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.
Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.
I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.
I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.
It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.
I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.
The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.
Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it.
No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.
I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off.
A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.
In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.
Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.