Quotes by category:Taken

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and l... by Alice Walker

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

taken lying

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

lonely loneliness taken

I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

taken men thinking

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

taken night father

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

traps taken lying

In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

taken jobs men

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control fo... by Alicia Keys

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

taken want

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

drawing taken men

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

confusion church taken

Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.

Alister MacKenzie

taken golf years

In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.

artist taken home

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

california girl taken

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.

depressing taken religious

It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too favorable. He took its instability, inhumanity and irrationality to be signs that it was a merely transitional form, which had delivered into humanity's hands the means to a much better way of life than any that have ever existed on earth. Marx could not bring himself to believe that our species is so benighted, irrational and slavish that it would put up with such a monstrous way of life.

taken mean believe

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense... by Ally Carter

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.

taken said thinking

Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,' Liz said, and immediately I knew that she was right. It was exactly like the library at the Gallagher Academy, from the position of the fireplace to the tall windows that overlooked the grounds. 'How do you know?' Zach asked. Liz looked totally insulted. 'Because...uh...library.' 'Okay.' Zach threw up his hands. 'Point taken.

wall taken hands

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

taken friendship death

There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.

uncles taken people

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.

taken home beach

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

taken average people

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