The Taken Quotes

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

Any MC who chooses to go up against me is getting taken advantage of like Monica Lewinski

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided.

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

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.

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

Having things taken away from you is not the same as giving them away.

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

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.