Taken Quotes · Page 40

I've never taken drugs of any kind, never had a glass of alcohol. Never had a cigarette, never had a cup of…

— Donald Trump

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law,…

— George W. Bush

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we…

— Samuel Johnson

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I…

— Debbie Reynolds

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which…

— Tony Campolo

As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back…

— John McCain

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

— Ralph Waite

“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the…

— Anonymous

Speaking for myself, but [Kriota] probably [agrees], I don't do different things because I have to, but certainly my career's taken a…

— Robert Sikoryak

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it…

— Damon Hill

Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty…

— Harry Browne

I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then…

— Paul McCartney

I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I…

— Neil Gaiman

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but…

— Cameron Diaz

I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has…

— Alex Scally

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to…

— Francis Bacon

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health…

— Alan Bennett

Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.

— Simon Sinek

“You have taken my heart, every inch of me Maysie. I don't know that I have anything else to give you that…

— A. Meredith Walters

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…

— Thomas Paine

An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the…

— Fuller Albright

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

— Johan Huizinga

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

— Thomas a Kempis

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty…

— Cassandra Clare

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has…

— Tony Greig

I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar…

— Timothy Noah

I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that…

— Toni Braxton

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my…

— Alan Moore

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

— Mason Cooley

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a…

— Jesse McCartney

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

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the…

— Mark Twain

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

— bell hooks

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa…

— Lisa Kristine

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.

— Edvard Munch

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You…

— James Frain