The Taken Quotes

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

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.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

I used to be a cool chick but I feel like the paparazzi has taken that away from me, like, the way I used to live my life. I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.