Me and my older brother were taken from my mother at the same time so we were pretty tight.
We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70 sites. If I had approached this as a traditional foot survey, it would have taken me three and a half years.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who’s been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It’s somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.
The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn’t have to worry about stuff pertaining to survival. Once that was taken care of, I got the chance sit down and create and work at what I do.
Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
I keep telling these millennials it’s all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don’t care about whether or not someone is gay. They don’t care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They’re going forward, not backward.
We’ve been in that situation where you’re just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.
I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.
When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.
It is important to express oneself… provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I’m enjoying every phase of motherhood.
In a state of poverty, illiteracy, people just remain exposed to all kinds of manipulation. That’s what we have lived. It’s easier to tell a poor person, ‘You know what, you are poor, you’re hungry because the other one has taken away your rights.’
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had ‘bikini’d’ me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven’t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don’t show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don’t use electricity.
The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated media outlets in Egypt tried to sour the ties between our two countries, but our ties are very strong. No negative stance has been taken by either side against the other. Rumors are being spread by the enemies of our two countries. We pay no attention to them.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.
The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.
Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.
When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn’t understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it’s for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
I have always taken my own decisions.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they’ve taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I’ve taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there’s more!
This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
If you have time to knit, if you’ve taken up knitting, it means you’re not worried about the essential stuff.
A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.
It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I’ve taken on.
I’m sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there’s the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone’s grass is greener.
I could be a model for one night. But I’m also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.
God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
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.
I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
I’ve taken a lot of pride in that, and not feeling any pressure to yield or to bend to what someone else’s imagination of who I should be is. I’m grateful for that, and I still want to continue to do that. It can sound cliche, ‘be true to yourself,’ but that does mean something.
