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Quotes About Taken away

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
~ Cab Calloway
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.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."Luke 11:52
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
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'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.
~ Brian Stelter
In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
~ Jay Parini
was there in the hut, together with her cloak and habit. And hidden! And she taken away from that place
~ Ellis Peters
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
~ J. K. Rowling
Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
~ Katee Sackhoff
My mom laid the foundation that in order for you to be successful, you have to take care of the books first. That's one thing she preached about, because at any point, other stuff can be taken away.
~ Robert Covington
I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.
~ Titus Welliver
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
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
That Jesus' body appeared to have been taken away was the final insult after the humiliation and suffering of the execution.
~ Robert J. Schreiter
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
By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.
~ Jim Gerlach
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
the only item he personally took away from the palace of the Ptolemies was a single agate cup.
~ Anthony Everitt
I am angry at my own sentimental weakness. I feel at certain moments a bottomless giving, an indifference to how much is taken away, but at times I have rebellions and my possessive instinct is aroused and then I am angry at myself, furious (the scorpion eats it own tail).
~ Anais Nin
He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now. The plane gone, his family gone, all of it
~ Gary Paulsen
The aftermath is often more troublesome than the act itself. As soon as the head has been exhibited to the crowd, it can be dropped back into the basket. But the headless body (which remains capable of losing a good deal of blood for a long time after the action of the heart has ceased) must be taken away in a manner dignified yet dishonorable. Furthermore, it must be not just taken "away," but taken to some specific spot where it will be safe from molestation.
~ Gene Wolfe
I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing. It was basically my livelihood and my sport being taken away from me. It was everything.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
He felt the loss of something irreplacable, as if a thief had come out of the night, velvet-gloved and softly shod, and taken whatever it was away without Jury's ever having known, and slipped through the square
~ Martha Grimes
Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.
~ Wes Streeting