So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint.
It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.
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.
Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
anxiety becomes high energy when taken to the light. For me, it worked like this: I used to live in a constant state of anxiety, worrying about the past and the future. Now I do my best to focus my attention on the present moment. So the mental energ...
Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History and Reason, and it dismays him to see...
Hermione Granger: How does it feel, Harry? When you see Dean with Ginny? Harry Potter: [slightly taken aback] Oh. Um... Hermione Granger: I know. I've seen the way you look at her. You're my best friend. [Ron bursts in with Lavender, laughing, then s...
I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.
