Taken Quotes (1477 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Markus Zusak
„Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.“
― Markus Zusak ―
Picture of quotation author Ernst Zundel
„They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.“
― Ernst Zundel ―
Picture of quotation author Mitchell Zuckoff
„Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.“
Picture of quotation author Robert Zoellick
„There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.“
― Robert Zoellick ―
Picture of quotation author Ian Ziering
„People have always told me I look young for my age... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself.“
― Ian Ziering ―
Picture of quotation author Richard D. Zanuck
„The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.“
Picture of quotation author Eliezer Yudkowsky
„If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.“
Picture of quotation author Robin Yount
„My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.“
― Robin Yount ―
Picture of quotation author Henny Youngman
„I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.“
― Henny Youngman ―
Picture of quotation author Thom Yorke
„I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.“
― Thom Yorke ―
Picture of quotation author Charlotte Mary Yonge
„When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.“
Picture of quotation author Ahmed Yassin
„The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.“
― Ahmed Yassin ―
Picture of quotation author John Yarmuth
„The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.“
― John Yarmuth ―
Picture of quotation author Zakk Wylde
„I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.“
― Zakk Wylde ―
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.“
― Ron Wyden ―
Picture of quotation author Robert Wyatt
„We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.“
― Robert Wyatt ―
Picture of quotation author Joe Wurzelbacher
„You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?“
Picture of quotation author Joe Wurzelbacher
„There is common ground we can look towards and hopefully make this country better for all of us. That is what Joe for America means. I want more jobs. I want veterans to have better benefits and not have them taken away. I want people to succeed in this country and have the tools to do so.“
Picture of quotation author N. T. Wright
„One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.“
― N. T. Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Georg Henrik von Wright
„Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.“

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