Quotes about taken
taken decision fruit
All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning. Imtiaz Ali
taken care doe
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not. Idries Shah
taken lions ants
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
taken giving want
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
taken justice want
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
taken two months
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. Gloria Swanson
taken feet acting
The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet. James Gleick
taken hands broken
Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand. J. R. R. Tolkien
taken eye madness
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.
taken men minstrels
The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?" "So the minstrels say," said Éomer. "Then let us defend it, and hope!
taken men fairy
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.
taken son saying-goodbye
Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!
taken giving receiving
When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of. Iyanla Vanzant
taken giving receiving
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.
taken men may
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite. Isaac Disraeli
taken years teeth
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has. Isaac Asimov
taken heart technological-change
I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.
taken giving magazines
I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical. Elton John
taken looks needs
Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself. Ellen DeGeneres
taken ignorance acceptance
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
taken pride want
Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
taken mind skins
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
taken errors deceit
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
taken faults method
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
taken knowledge understanding
Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
taken unique men
But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken. Francis Schaeffer
taken thinking people
I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure of this. I think it's insane how many pictures have to be taken these days. We have to realize there's a level of documentation that's just chatter, it's noise, and beyond that, people who are truly documenting are going to have to find a way to puncture that. Ian MacKaye
taken simple years
Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back. Ian Mcewan
taken opportunity sometimes
Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can. Ian Frazier
taken wings ideas
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. Ian Hacking
taken soul melancholy
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul. Horace Walpole
taken literature borders
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders. Horace Mann
taken way playboy
I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money. Gloria Steinem