Taken Quotes

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.'

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.