Home / Topics / Taken Quotes

Taken Quotes

Browse 5910 quotes about Taken.

Taken Quotes

“Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.”

Needs Shows Moving Pay Attention Beauty Taken Messages Creator Granted Pay Attention Indifference Insult Taken For Granted

Author:Luci Shaw

“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.”

People Thinking Knows Love Feels Mind Persons Matter Courses Levels Pay Attention Know How Taken Majors Oneness Realization

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.”

People Way Rooms Pay Attention Talking Taken Reputation Nfl Insignificant Dynasty Bathtubs

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of.”

Author:Susan Jeffers

“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.”

People Ifs Want Feels Years Looks Children Helping Seems Care Kids Pay Careers Taken Lucky Sick Foundation Get Better Hospitals Helping People Jackie Payback Sick Kids

Author:Jackie Chan

“I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by those who could well afford to pay for it, that I would hereafter give advice only to myself and always sell it to others.”

Ifs Giving Wells Pay Taken Advice Needed Sells Conclusion Stolen Hereafter

Author:William H. McMaster

“One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.”

States Differences United Pay United States Taken Arms France Cash Hostage Ransom Appeasement

Author:William Safire

“Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.”

Two Home Girl Pay Taken Figures Eating Stores Evening Etc Cake Baskets Dimes Refreshments Doxies

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”

Years Ends Pay Sun Taken Terrible Walking Thousand Intensity Apathy Away From You Hallways Tedium

Author:George Jung

“I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.”

Funny Found Fun Pay Known Marriage Taken Settling

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too.”

Want Giving Different Enjoy Pay Taken Sucker Want Him Enjoy Yourself

Author:William S. Burroughs

“The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.”

Want Giving Mean Enough Past Justice Pay Silence Forever Taken Sentences Coming Back Had Enough Rail

Book:After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

Source: After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

“We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.”

Ifs Men Country Mother Pay Taken Subjects Security Duty Slave Pockets Pounds Submit Representatives Consent Submission Nineteen Mother Country

Author:George Mason

“Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a million jobs, that is not a net increase in jobs, when the money that pays for those jobs is taken from the private sector, which loses that much ability to create private jobs.”

People Ifs Government Jobs Loses Wealth Ability Pay Millions Taken Increase Transfers Private Sector

Author:Thomas Sowell