Taken Quotes

• The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mean
  • Eye
  • Luck

• We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Risk
  • Politics
  • Judgment

• I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

  

  Tommy Franks
  • Remember
  • Care
  • Soldier

• The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

  

  Steven Squyres
  • Earth
  • Enough
  • Imagine

• I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Fighting

• Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Sports
  • Smart
  • Boys

• As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Travel

• Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Happiness
  • Goal
  • Should

• Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

  

  Murray Gell-Mann
  • Education
  • Taken
  • Restaurants

• I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Exercise
  • Term
  • Bits

• A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Together
  • Decision
  • Memories

• In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • World
  • Problem
  • Growth

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

  

  Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Taken
  • VIolin
  • Mates

• Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Friend
  • Blessing
  • Failing

• I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

  

  Walther Funk
  • Feels
  • States
  • Ashamed

• I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Trying
  • Christian

• I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Hours
  • Addiction
  • Heroin

• An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Perfect
  • Eye
  • Summer

• Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Mean
  • Pride
  • Speak

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

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Religion
  • Made
  • Devotion

• The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

  

  Myrtle Reed
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Given

• Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Earth
  • Quality
  • Humanity

• I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

  

  George Clooney
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Doubt

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