The Taken Quotes

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

We have taken the home page of my website, HillaryClinton.com, and we've turned it into a fact-checker. So if you want to see in real-time what the facts are, please go and take a look.

When we talk about Donald Trump business, he has taken business bankruptcy six times. There are a lot of great businesspeople that have never taken bankruptcy once.

[Donald Trump] actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that [Muamar] Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time.

We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.

I'm almost 46. You become no longer even regarded in a sexual way. As you get older you're just taken out of that realm. So it's not anything that particularly confronts me very much at all.

I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like it had taken 2000 volts and been spray starched

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

So of course that was the moment my motherboard decided to do a short internal scan, throw up its hands, and screech, “Dear Lawd, a VAMPIRE has taken mah blood!” and initiate a general shutdown.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.