Taken Quotes

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

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

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

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

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."