The Taken Quotes

If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.

After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.

Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

I hate having my picture taken.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

When my title was taken away boxing died.