Taken Quotes - Page 7

• I prefer a taken to a made photograph.

  Wright Morris

  Photograph, Made

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• Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

  George V. Higgins

  Writing, Incompetence, Confession

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• What has been happening in Turkey. The country has been taken over by the present rulers and they have been very, very skillful and taking over everything and taking over control over everything and now taking control over the judiciary. They will be taking over the constitution. Unless there will be some radical change, which is unlikely, I will say the tradition of Kemalism will be dead in Turkey. And Turkey is becoming a more Islamic state, in the traditional sense.

  Bernard Lewis

  Country, Islamic, Constitution

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• If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins.

  Josh Bernstein

  Winning, Giving, Incentives

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• We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.

  David McCullough

  Encouragement, Doors, Mind

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• A maid that laughs is half taken.

  John Ray

  Laughing, Half, Maids

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.10

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• Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.

  Coco Ho

  Media, Talking, Competition

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• But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

  Davy Rothbart

  Ends, Plans, Road Not Taken

  Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.333, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

  John Lennon

  Said

  News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican, August 11, 1966.

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• It's an old, established rule, but "golden hour" lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and warm. For that reason, women with photos taken outside during those hours tended to look great.

  Amy Webb

  Looks, Golden, Lasts

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• Photos should focus on your waist up, unless you have amazing legs. Then it's okay to include one or two full-body shots in your gallery. The majority of your photos should be closer up, highlighting your face. Don't stage a smile. Instead, try to laugh just before the shot is taken. Flirty smiles that don't look cheesy also work. Make eye contact with the camera. Aim to take most of your photos outdoors.

  Amy Webb

  Flirty, Eye, Two

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• Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.

  Greg Proops

  Stars, Glasses, People

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• I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

  Emo Philips

  Earth, Purpose, Ifs

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• Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Government, People

  "Custodians of chaos", www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

  Hermann Goring

  Eggs, People, Here And There

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• Near beliefs are to blame for a new brand of Christianity that is epidemic in our homes and churches-a faith that has little flavor, little light and little influence. When near beliefs are our only source of motivation, tough stands are never taken, feathers are never ruffled, and absolutes are held very loosely.

  Dennis Rainey

  Motivation, Home, Light

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• Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is twofold: first, many, many people even to this day, do take the whole of their Scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not of literal fact, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely, nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? But what kind of morals could one derive from this appalling story?

  Richard Dawkins

  Islamic, Sacrifice, Two

  "Richard Dawkins and God". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. November 26, 2006.

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• For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Moral Development, Perception

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• The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self Esteem, School, Successful

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

  Thomas Sowell

  Policy

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• When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men, Rights, Talking

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.21, Revell

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• As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

  John Stossel

  Ignorance, Government, Self

  "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet". abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2007.

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• [In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Miracle, Magic, Enlightenment

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• Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Adults, Calamity, Young

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• The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.

  Daniel Dennett

  Reality, Land, Issues

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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