The Taken Quotes

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

Cause whatever you love could be taken away, So live like it's your dying day.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

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.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

I'm in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!