Taken Quotes

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

New York City has taken a much-needed step that we hope will be followed by other jurisdictions throughout the United States.

We've been very busy today. We've probably taken 30 phone calls just in the last three hours.

We have always attempted to do things differently. Our vision has taken us to unprecedented levels of success and innovation. Just keeping up with conventional technology is not enough for us.

The play has taken on a greater height of spirituality. He didn't make it. That was a painful thing, but it feels absolutely right that we are here. His family is here. His people are here.

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

I didn't speak Italian when I got to Italy. I had taken a couple of lessons and did a year in college, but in six months, I became regionally submersed to the point that I can curse in dialect.

They are not juvenile delinquents. These are children who have been taken from homes that were bad for them.

We have robust surveillance measures in place and have taken more than 3,500 samples from wild birds, which so far have not detected H5N1 in the UK.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

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

There's a sense that we've taken a big beating. That it's not just about immigrants. It's about Latinos. It's about a culture clash. The immigrants and the Latino community are fighting back.