Taken Quotes

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

I haven't had many relationships.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

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

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

Together, we created the STACKED brand and have really taken the product up two or three notches.

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

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

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

The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.