1,242 Quotes About Taken

..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.

We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that we have the safest possible system. We're working with federal officials.

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

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.