Quotes of: Taken Keyword

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Children of Dune

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

Chance and Necessity

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

Catch-22

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Diplomatic Immunity

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

Doomsday Diaries III: Luke the Protector

But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

Dead Scared

Success is not attained when the goal is reached; success is attained from the time when the first step is taken towards that goal.

Empowerment Basics

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

Ender's Game

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Emma

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Faith of the Fallen

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Great Expectations

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.

The Golem's Eye

A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.

The Garden of Evening Mists

Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantage of by a group of vile, twisted men.

Girl A

The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.

Before Ever After

Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.

The Bad Beginning

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Birthright

When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

City of Fallen Angels