Taken Quotes · Page 14

This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution…

— Mao Zedong

I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've…

— Teddy Pendergrass

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

— Bonnie Blair

When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away…

— Ai Yazawa

I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

— Aleksandra Mir

If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest.

— Willie Geist

I've taken a lot of chances in my life.

— Carole Radziwill

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called…

— Horatio Nelson

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

— Bayard Taylor

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

— Henry Ford

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

— Julia Child

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the…

— Chaka Khan

Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books -…

— Clayton M. Christensen

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was…

— Leo Tolstoy

In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school…

— Sarah Chalke

To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were…

— Mitch Albom

Ready to be humiliated, Wanda?" Wes taunted. "You may have taken the planet, but you're losing this game.

— Stephenie Meyer

Always be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

— Anonymous

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to…

— Abraham Lincoln

I've seen women essentially martyr themselves for the good of the future and the good of their children and, again, the good…

— Peter Buffett

It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against…

— Milton Friedman

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like…

— Bobby Darin

Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the…

— D. H. Lawrence