Taken quotes

Taken

5.8K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

5.8K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside taken — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Thinking 95.1K quotes People 100.4K quotes Men 68.6K quotes Years 26.7K quotes Mean 28K quotes Country 20.3K quotes

Quote collection

Taken quotes (page 25 of 288)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Nelson Mandela Political Leader
Taken

"i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work."

Children Taken Sweet
Read quote 9 likes
Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
Taken

"A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?"

Men Taken Hunting
Read quote 9 likes
Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
Taken

"A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers."

Giving Taken Voice
Read quote 9 likes
Helen Keller Author, Activist
Taken

"I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine."

Mean Eye Taken
Read quote 9 likes
Lewis Goldberg Psychologist
Taken

"... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet."

Taken Kings Liberty
Read quote 9 likes
Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Taken

"From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism."

Real Taken Struggle
Read quote 9 likes
Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Taken

"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."

Christian Taken Biblical
Read quote 9 likes
Joseph Heller Novelist
Taken

"You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!"

Taken Military Tradition
Read quote 9 likes
Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Taken

"The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning."

Taken Hero Adventure
Read quote 9 likes
Taken

"Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down."

Fall Taken Wall
Read quote 9 likes
Myrtle Reed Author
Taken

"The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right."

Heart Trying Taken
Read quote 9 likes
Mira Grant Author
Taken

"Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really."

Thinking Past Taken
Read quote 9 likes
Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Taken

"I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima."

Taken Brother Color
Read quote 9 likes
Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Taken

"In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important."

Life Taken Vegetarianism
Read quote 8 likes
C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Taken

"Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."

People Real Taken
Read quote 8 likes
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Taken

"If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego."

Thinking Strong Taken
Read quote 8 likes
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Taken

"True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts."

Thinking Taken Skills
Read quote 8 likes