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Quotes About Taken

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
~ George Herbert
People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away…
~ Bob Dylan
How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who's taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How
~ Francesco Petrarca
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.
~ Henri Nouwen
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
~ Sharon Stone
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
~ Mike Johanns
The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge
~ Drew Brees
Early in my studies, I was amazed and disappointed that such a view had ever been taken seriously, that for planets of other stars, absence of evidence had been considered evidence of absence.
~ Carl Sagan
A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch, Carrot drew himself up proudly, because someone's taken a book ? You think that's worse than murder? The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like What's so bad about genocide?
~ Terry Pratchett
All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.
~ Terry Pratchett
It is a curious characteristic of the non-defensive disposition that it is like a honey-jar to flies. Nothing is brought to it and much is taken away.
~ Theodore Dreiser
her naked today, sort of? Is he reading my mind? Mentally, I mutter blah, blah, blah, over and over. "Shut the hell up and listen to me. We were in bed and she vanished. There one instant, then gone. Taken from inside Chester's, which is impossible. I've got the club so heavily warded, even I have a difficult time getting past them, in beast form.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!
~ Karl Kesel
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
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
My talents, such as they are, have usually been employed in finding the truth of some event that's already taken place. I've never claimed to have any talent for prevention or precognition. I can't foretell the future.
~ Steven Saylor
someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. "You say you should have
~ Mitch Albom
In 987 AM, God raptured Enoch as the Scripture says: "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." Genesis 5:24
~ Ken Johnson
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
~ Omar Ahmad
For all the ladies out there, I'm taken. I'm sorry.
~ Ryan Fitzpatrick
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to make it. That's where the record labels were. That's where the action was.
~ Denny Laine
Claire took Owen to get his cast taken
~ Carrie Mac
The Pasha sighed. He often did that when he took up quarters before a fortress that had to be taken. It was a reflex prompted by the first impression, always the deepest, before he became accustomed to the situation — it was rather like getting used to a woman.
~ Ismail Kadare
And although the evil had been taken out, its infection was beyond deadly and the harm was done.
~ J R Ward