Quotes about taken
taken wine ideas
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. Richard Strauss
taken grateful thinking
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me. Rene Descartes
taken mean reality
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind. Thomas Nagel
taken men anxiety
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties. Thomas More
taken consideration magnitude
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. Thomas Paine
taken ideas taxes
It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.
taken mean rights
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
taken rights perfect
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
taken men years
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry. Thomas Browne
taken loss reality
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. Timothy Leary
taken policy
Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. Thomas Sowell
taken years political
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence.
taken people succeed
What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
taken waiting today
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! Thomas Pynchon
taken optimism modernism
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. Robert Hewison
taken granted given
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept. Robert Kennedy
taken unexpected surprise
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Robert Baden-Powell
taken thinking emergencies
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
taken made
I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies. Robert Barry
taken intelligent government
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense. Robert Anton Wilson
taken world granted
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
taken idols
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously. Rob Lowe
taken past garden
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates. Richard Leakey
taken men giving
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent. Samuel Adams
taken reality thinking
I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image. Tariq Ramadan
taken world myth
You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously. Ta-Nehisi Coates
taken darkness speak
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness. T. S. Eliot
taken thinking psychics
What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound. Sylvia Browne
taken years earth
It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us. Sylvia Earle
taken thinking air
Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.
taken together lifetime
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.
taken emotional artist
A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile. Sylvester Stallone
taken intelligent intellectual
I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.