Best Taken Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.”

Feels Taken Ordinary Lifetime Ordinary Life

Author:Margaret Mahy

“It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.”

Facts Simple Taken Exercise Lighters

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.”

People Years Firsts Humans Play Would Be Able Human Beings Issues Taken Involved Projects Impact Sci Fi Exploring Human Experience Reflecting Envelopes Sci Fi Film

Author:Mary McDonnell

“At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.”

Knows Faces Girl Next Taken And Love Paint Queens Meals Drag Most Amazing Camaraderie Runaway Portland Drag Queen

Author:Rose McGowan

“I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.”

Knows Girl Party Taken Concerned Photograph

Author:Sienna Miller

“I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.”

Whole Taken Whole Life

Author:Sienna Miller

“People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.”

People Taken Morality Commitment Height

Author:Chris Noth

“Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.”

Made Done Situation Careers Taken Records Team

Author:Don Nelson

“There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.”

Years War Situation Taken Position Couple Civil War Precarious Nicaragua Guatemala El Salvador Honduras

Author:John Negroponte

“It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.”

Has Beens Taken Nice Scene Independent

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Stills Taken Couple Scene Alternatives Cool Things

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.”

Taken Complexes

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.”

Littles Kids Taken Little Kid

Author:Karen O

“Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.”

Trying Christian Culture Taken Squares Aggressive Heritage Secularism Christian Heritage

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.”

Care Lasts Winning Taken Five Plans Greatness Republican Percent Assuming Divinity Rolling Momentum Zealot

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.”

Thinking Father Taken Lifetime Good Father

Author:Mike Oldfield

“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

Thinking Feels Should Kind Age Form Young Taken Wonderful Encouragement Artistic Endeavor Scope Attempting Young Writers Inexperience

Author:Tea Obreht

“Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.”

Body Spiritual Moral Taken Risk Military Your Body Centre Joining Joining The Military

Author:Kevin Powers

“Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”

Knows Matter Political Issues Taken Happened Birth Moon Fake Get Back Landing Certificates Birth Certificate Moon Landing Biggie

Author:Barack Obama

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.”

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Author:James Monroe

“The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.”

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Author:Hilaire Belloc

“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.”

People Feels Mean Past Faces Taken Wall Paid Destitute Nowhere To Go

Author:Alexander Lebed

“Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.”

President Taken Republican Privilege Executives

Author:Jacob Lew

“History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.”

Taken Lessons

Author:Jim Leach

“I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.”

People Different School House Taken Months Mets Members Traveled Family Members Time Off Extended Family

Author:Christina Perri

“Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.”

Has Beens Facts Opportunity Given Nations Process Steps Taken Europe Good Things Unions Zone Solidarity Defects Greece Euro

Author:George Papandreou

“I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.”

Thinking Facts Helping Problem Taken Extraordinary Partners Addresses Greece

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I hate having my picture taken.”

Hate Taken I Hate Picture Taken

Author:Zara Phillips

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

“I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.”

Has Beens Values Given Taken Greater Possibility Giving Up Optimistic Not Giving Up

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”

Used Three House Knowing Taken Boxes Used To Be California Los Angeles Vacant

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Bigs Used Novel Taken Heard Serious Eating Nine Nine Years

Author:Ian Rankin

“The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!”

People Want Persons Has Beens Eye Courses Space Views Taken Sick Exciting Cameras Tired Photograph Hearing Mechanism Astronaut

Author:Burt Rutan

“There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.”

Stills Problem Bits Roles Taken Actresses

Author:Joely Richardson

“Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.”

Has Beens Country Done Home Together Political Next Effort Steps Taken Protect Remains Terror Significant Phases Spectrum Political Spectrum

Author:Warren Rudman

“When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.”

Taken Streets Balls Police Pathetic

Author:Wayne Rooney

“Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.”

Said Past Taken Car Mouths Soap Bad Word Curfew

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.”

Use Feelings Taken Dues Aliens Invasion Reluctance Alien Invasion

Author:Clifford D. Simak

“I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.”

Thinking Men Novel Taken

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”

Men Has Beens Country Seems Differences Church Taken Ought Models Towns Faults Ancient

Author:George Edmund Street

“I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.”

Cities Millions Taken Team Billions League Champion Guarantees Manchester Champions League Manchester City

Author:Gordon Strachan

“The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.”

Men Moving Left Steps Taken He Man Capture Squares Files Another Man Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess

“When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.”

May Said Play Situation Enemy Taken Pieces Captured Pawns

Book:The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

Source: The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

“By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.”

World Humanity Natural Steps Taken Chemicals Atoms Electric Investigation Quantum Recognizing Natural World Steps Forward

Author:Johannes Stark

“You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.”

Self Moments Happiness Joy Enjoy Accepting Taken Buddhism Completion Accepting Yourself Enjoy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.”

Has Beens I Can Film Taken Horror Versions Victorian Horror Film Hares Victorian Times

Author:John Landis

“The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.”

Believe Long Facts Government Running Moving Law Certain Decision Party Democracy Taken Advantage India Committed Chinese Long Runs Rule Of Law

Author:Manmohan Singh

“So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'”

Thinking Shows Taken Deliberate

Author:Matt Stone

“It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.”

Years Humans Has Beens Self Facts Values Left Views Taken Determination Dignity Independence Individuality British Attributes Self Determination Human Dignity British Politics

Author:Maurice Saatchi

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