Quotes About Taken

Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages and pages of articles about Abstract Expressionists, when we came along, we were just not taken seriously at all.

You know, I started in movies a long time ago, and once in awhile I'm taken aback. Sometimes one of my things will come on - they use my things as background music all the time, in somebody else's arrangements and It catches my ear.

21When Enoch had lived 65 years, he begot Methuselah. 22After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years; and he begot sons and daughters. 23All the days of Enoch came to 365 years. 24Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, for God took him.

To them, he was just an inconvenient black dude who needed to be taken out.

You'd have been a holy terror if you'd taken to crime.

Every secret told, every declaration made, is a boundary crossed, a step taken into unknown country that can never be unstepped, never reversed, never erased.

there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last judgment has been taken away.

I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.

On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.

All this stuff was like air: essential and expected, missed only when taken away.

It is a strange attitude, to view a woman merely as an object to be taken; to be so overwhelmed by the body's cravings that a man must satisfy them even at such a cost.

you moved about ceaselessly from one activity to another with that strangely light expression that comes just before smiling. Perhaps you were unaware of it, but it was indeed a curious expression. I believe I proposed marriage to you precisely because I was unexpectedly taken by that look.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild.

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

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

I'm telling you, November 8, we better be careful, because that presidential election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it's going to be taken away from us.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.