The Taken Quotes

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

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.

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.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

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

When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

Other people have to understand where we are coming from, including our allies. Our allies have taken advantage of us.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Tho' much is taken, much abides.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.

I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial.

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.

There's a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.