Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Bill Vaughan

I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

Bertrand Russell

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

That was taken the day before she died.

Petrarch

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

David Palmer

We're well versed in what collaboration takes. It has not been part of this process. Collaboration is what it would have taken to make this work.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

Bob Etheridge

It is disappointing it has taken this long,

Mike Knuble

I'm speechless. I don't know, it's weird right now. I think we were all taken aback.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Soledad O'Brien

I've never taken fashion too seriously. I try to enjoy it.

Jennifer Ehle

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

On the day of the funeral, I was just taken by it all - I didn't want it to be forgotten.

Kevin Spacey

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.

P. J. O'Rourke

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

I feel very, very vindicated. It's taken a long time.

I don't think it's to be taken too seriously,

Harry Redknapp

Jose won't let him come but I would have taken him,

He is someone who has to be taken very seriously,

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

I feel like I have been taken for a ride.

Djuna Barnes

Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.

Devon Werkheiser

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.