The Taken Quotes

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

If you're callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours / I should've listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn't have taken me so long / To know where I belong

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...

With faith, I know that everything will be taken care of. Even the difficult times become learning experiences to help make my faith stronger.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them.

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would have won.