The Taken Quotes

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

A maid that laughs is half taken.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.

The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.

It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.

As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.

My family is taken care of, I'm taken care of and that's all that matters to me.

I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases.

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.

I can't watch my movies and get into them because as soon as I see myself I get taken out of the film.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.