Top 464 Taken Quotes

I didn’t want to do ‘Fashion Police’ because I thought, ‘This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?’ It has taken off. We are the number one show in England on E! Who knew?
Joan Rivers
The one serious conviction that a man should have is th

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
Ellen G. White
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
Norman Borlaug
No one’s taken anything from me.
Damon Dash
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
I think that what’s bizarre to me about life is that sometimes you have to have everything taken away before you experience grace or before you actually recognize that grace can happen to you.
Min Jin Lee
I’ve taken my destiny into my own hands and I’m in a happy place.
Charlie Simpson
I love living in a condo because I don’t have worries, relax ka lang and everything is being taken care of.
Pia Wurtzbach
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Charles Mackay
Why, I ask, isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
David Riesman
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
Mark Twain
Something that I’ve definitely taken on when I think of my style icons – people like Harry Styles and the way he’s managed to bring a femininity to his masculinity – is that that’s definitely the way that we’re moving as men going into 2021.
Nicholas Galitzine
In ‘Notting Hill,’ I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
Richard McCabe
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn’t taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Shimon Peres
Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I’ve ever taken on.
Ari Melber
By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
Michael Bergin
In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.
Rosie Perez
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland
I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
Duane G. Carey
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock must be a constitutional government, of which I shall be the head so long as I shall be among men.
Toussaint Louverture
Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn’t like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture, when I was agony, naked, so ugly? I wished that picture wasn’t taken.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.
Doc Hastings
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing – and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe
One of the reasons you take a role is because it’s something you always wanted to do, from going to the movies as a kid. I always wanted to do a 1950s movie, for example. And I got a chance to be in ‘Peggy Sue Got Married.’ I would have taken only one line of dialogue to be in that.
Catherine Hicks
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role or we’re acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
Judith Butler
I don’t remember taking pictures with eighty percent of the people that I have taken pictures with.
Lil Peep
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If ther

I think I’ve failed every test I’ve ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley
I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.
Shinzo Abe
It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
Eric Clapton
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn’t matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you’ve taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
Peter Gabriel
Everything I’m saying shouldn’t be taken so serious. I’m playing, but at the same token, I’m acknowledging that I’m not always the perfect man; I’m not always doing the right things. That’s who I am. I’m working to be better.
Common
Though many in the media do their best to conceal the achievements of President Trump on behalf of women, we are confident that women nationwide have taken notice and will use the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage to reelect President Trump on November 3, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany
I should have directed more but I am a lazy person and have taken a backseat.
Randhir Kapoor
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
Ginger Baker
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo – Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Patti Smith
And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.
Reba McEntire
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
Archer John Porter Martin
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she’d still be standing.
Mary Frances Berry
The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.
Isabella Bird
I’ve taken great pride in not being fragile.
Carli Lloyd
I’m sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
Mark McGwire
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Joseph Roux
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we’re held to.
Amber Heard
It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I’m very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
Anne Hathaway
Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?
Pearl White
I’m a gentleman, if nothing else. It’s taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
Eric Stoltz
At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don’t know how to cherish the freedom we have until it’s taken from us.
Alek Wek
If the picture hadn’t been taken, people wouldn’t know what happened in the war.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
If I’d known how old I was going to be I’d have taken better care of myself.
Jimmy Durante
It’s quite true to say that if you work with marvellous fresh ingredients, the simplest dish is taken to another level.
Ainsley Harriott
Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.
Cynthia Nixon
We are constantly – in order to cope with painful realities – shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively – we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.
Joshua Oppenheimer
It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
Cameron Bright