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Quotes About Taken

We were all spectators. And it occurred to me there is no manual that deals with the real business of motorcycle maintenance, the most important aspect of all. Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
We are tired of living under this tyranny. We cannot endure that our women and children are taken away And dealt with by the white savages. We shall make war. . . . We know that we shall die, but we want to die. We want to die.
~ Adam Hochschild
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
~ Donald Cargill
I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
The next stage is reaching a clear decision. Again, the greater the disagreement about the issue, the more important becomes the word clear. In fact, particular pains should be taken to frame the terms of the decision with utter clarity.
~ Andrew S. Grove
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
~ Andy Stanley
Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.
~ Arundhati Bhattacharya
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
~ Charles Tupper
It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
~ Jane Mayer
I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.
~ Matt Kuchar
At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
~ Ziaur Rahman
That Jesus' body appeared to have been taken away was the final insult after the humiliation and suffering of the execution.
~ Robert J. Schreiter
on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
~ Lee Strobel
My goddesses! Where now? Forsaken? Oh hearken to my call, I rue: Are you the same? Have others taken Your place without replacing you?
~ Alexander Pushkin
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
~ Dr. Karl Menninger
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
~ Dustin Hoffman
It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.
~ Martin Brodeur
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
~ Anne Bronte
There's never been a time when we've taken progressive action and regretted it.
~ Daniel Pfeiffer
Our property, we've taken the position that we're phasing out the Confederate flag.
~ Brian France
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
~ Michael Ignatieff
My dragons!' she insisted. 'She has finally found a flock to join,' he observed to me. 'Her own kind always pecked her. But the dragons have taken her in.' ...'If a flock of crows is a murder, what should we call a group of dragons?' ... 'A catastrophe of dragons.
~ Robin Hobb
They were taking Elli away. "Don't worry, Miles, I've been arrested before," she tried to reassure him. "It's no big deal.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Malevolence is born of negative feelings like lonliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife; an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you.
~ Ry? Murakami