Top Taken Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Kazuya Minekura
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.
- Kazuya Minekura
Collection: Taken
Image of Clifford D. Simak
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this, there should be no economic necessity of its doing so. By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.
- Clifford D. Simak
Collection: Taken
Image of Walter Raleigh
What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!
- Walter Raleigh
Collection: Taken
Image of James S.A. Corey
Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.
- James S.A. Corey
Collection: Taken
Image of Paul Rudnick
And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.
- Paul Rudnick
Collection: Taken
Image of Malorie Blackman
And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.
- Malorie Blackman
Collection: Taken
Image of Azar Nafisi
It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.
- Azar Nafisi
Collection: Taken
Image of Daniil Kharms
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.
- Daniil Kharms
Collection: Taken
Image of Ann Aguirre
I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.
- Ann Aguirre
Collection: Taken
Image of Jason F. Wright
What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?
- Jason F. Wright
Collection: Taken
Image of Max Stirner
Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
- Max Stirner
Collection: Taken
Image of Max Stirner
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.
- Max Stirner
Collection: Taken
Image of Ron Rash
Don't love anything that can be taken away.
- Ron Rash
Collection: Taken
Image of Alethea Kontis
There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
- Alethea Kontis
Collection: Taken
Image of Jonathan Stroud
That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.
- Jonathan Stroud
Collection: Taken
Image of Jonathan Stroud
Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.
- Jonathan Stroud
Collection: Taken
Image of Vinnie Jones
The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
- Vinnie Jones
Collection: Taken
Image of Ahmed Yassin
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world
- Ahmed Yassin
Collection: Taken
Image of Anthony Powell
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.
- Anthony Powell
Collection: Taken
Image of Manfred von Richthofen
Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!
- Manfred von Richthofen
Collection: Taken
Image of Lisa Genova
I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.
- Lisa Genova
Collection: Taken
Image of Peter F. Hamilton
You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.
- Peter F. Hamilton
Collection: Taken
Image of Richard Siken
I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.
- Richard Siken
Collection: Taken
Image of Amartya Sen
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
- Amartya Sen
Collection: Taken
Image of James Redfield
I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason".
- James Redfield
Collection: Taken
Image of William Julius Wilson
If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, and family income, and if this middle-income black kid doesn't score as well as the white kid on the test, then I say, look, you haven't taken into consideration the cumulative effect of living in a segregated neighborhood and going to a de facto segregated school. You're denying a position at Harvard or some other place to a kid that really could make it. That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.
- William Julius Wilson
Collection: Taken
Image of Rebecca West
Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.
- Rebecca West
Collection: Taken
Image of Tracy Chevalier
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
- Tracy Chevalier
Collection: Taken
Image of Iyanla Vanzant
There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.
- Iyanla Vanzant
Collection: Taken
Image of Tan Twan Eng
A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.
- Tan Twan Eng
Collection: Taken
Image of Frederic Bastiat
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
- Frederic Bastiat
Collection: Taken
Image of Johnny Miller
I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.
- Johnny Miller
Collection: Taken
Image of Wayne Huizenga
We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.
- Wayne Huizenga
Collection: Taken
Image of Mark Shields
I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that grandpa has been drunk and disorderly in public, that, says, no, no, grandpa would never do that, even though grandpa is being taken off in handcuffs.
- Mark Shields
Collection: Taken
Image of Max Allan Collins
If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.
- Max Allan Collins
Collection: Taken
Image of Harold S. Kushner
One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.
- Harold S. Kushner
Collection: Taken
Image of William Graham Sumner
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
- William Graham Sumner
Collection: Taken
Image of Rosie Perez
In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it
- Rosie Perez
Collection: Taken
Image of Raoul Vaneigem
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
- Raoul Vaneigem
Collection: Taken
Image of Craig Clevenger
It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.
- Craig Clevenger
Collection: Taken
Image of Tiffanie DeBartolo
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
Collection: Taken
Image of Julian Bond
Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.
- Julian Bond
Collection: Taken
Image of Michelle Rodriguez
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
- Michelle Rodriguez
Collection: Taken
Image of David Niven
I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.
- David Niven
Collection: Taken
Image of Victoria Woodhull
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.
- Victoria Woodhull
Collection: Taken
Image of William L. Shirer
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
- William L. Shirer
Collection: Taken
Image of Oswald Spengler
We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.
- Oswald Spengler
Collection: Taken
Image of James A. Owen
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy.
- James A. Owen
Collection: Taken
Image of Eric Ripert
When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage.
- Eric Ripert
Collection: Taken