There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
- Mark Twain
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.
- J R R Tolkien
Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why they were taken away from you, but a reason to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit. And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better.
- Cecelia Ahern
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
- Cecelia Ahern
Everything that could happen, but it never happened, eventually was taken away by the wind and leaves no trace.The life - this is our actions.
- Paulo Coelho
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.
- Jeff Ament
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
- Fisher Ames
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
- Anaxagoras
I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.
- Stuart Appleby
Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.
- Will Arnett
You don't have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked... very much... and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.
- Kristen Ashley
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way....
....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds.
Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.
- Julia Quinn
I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.
- Michele Bachmann
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
- William Barclay
..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.
- Clive Barker
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
- L Frank Baum
After the small woman had left, Ushikawa stared at the door for the longest time. She had shut the door behind her, but there was still a strong sense of her in the room. Maybe in exchange for leaving a trace of herself behind, she had taken away a part of Ushikawa's soul. He could feel that new void within his chest. Why did this happen? he wondered, finding it odd. And what could it possibly mean?
- Haruki Murakami
A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.
- Sylvester Stallone
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
- James Blunt
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
- Erma Bombeck
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!
- Russell Brand
i miss my brother like
the sea would miss salt
if that were taken away.
- Emma Cameron
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
- Suzanne Collins
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetative. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.
- Suzanne Collins
It feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm affraid it could be taken away.
That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after twenty years.
But there are far worse games to play
- Suzanne Collins
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
- Donald Cargill
I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.
- Giacomo Casanova
The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
- Vinton Cerf
The pain I had clenched in my heart, began to release itself and I felt a rush of fear. Fear for my sisters and Sabina. Fear for the future and, most of all, fear for the newly found love I had with Henry. All of it could be taken away in the Fates' breath, and I was afraid.
- Katlyn Charlesworth
By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.
- Stephen King
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
- Agatha Christie
Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.
- Clamp
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
- David Allan Coe
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
- Douglas Coupland
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
- Ted Cruz
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
- Edwidge Danticat
We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
- Cecilia Dart Thornton
I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.
- Hope Davis
There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.
- Lauren Destefano
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.
- Philip K Dick
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
- Cameron Dokey
Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.
- Louise Doughty
I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.
- Jaycee Dugard
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Martin Luther King Jr
She had realised that they couldn't be together. She didn't want to make a romantic drama out of it, she didn't want to sigh and mope or scream hysterically to impress others with how awful it all was, even though she felt as if something fundamental, deep within her, had been taken away from her. She was simply trying to cope, to get on with her own normal life. Which, she knew, was something he could not be a part of.
- Harriet Evans
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.
- Nelson Mandela
I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
- Jane Fonda
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
- Michael J Fox
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Michael J Fox
If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.
- Michael J Fox
Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.
- James Patterson
Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
- Anna Friel
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
- Stephen Fry
That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.
- John Fund
I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.
- Jeff Garcia
By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.
- Jim Gerlach
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
- William Golding
I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam
- Charlaine Harris
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.
- Rutger Hauer
For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.
- Henry Hazlitt
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
- Dorothy Height
Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.
- Lauren Henderson
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
- J K Rowling
Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
- Steven Herrick
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
- Aldous Huxley
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
- Jean Paul Sartre
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
- Christopher Isherwood
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
- Helmut Jahn
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
- Derek Jarman
I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.
So much for me. I am just fine.
- Walter Wangerin Jr
We're taught to love only a few people. We think it's this sacred resource, like we'll run out of it at some point. But the more you love, the more it's returned to you. Hands down. You can't argue with that."
"Maybe," I say. "Or maybe you stop giving it so freely because one day it's taken away and it hurts so much, you need to protect yourself."
She know what I'm referring to. "Until you realize love's the only think worth living for in the first place.
- Katie Kacvinsky
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
- Jack Kevorkian
when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
- Marian Keyes
I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.
- Shahrukh Khan
When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
- Jeff Kinney
And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.
- Markus Zusak
I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.
- Dorothy Koomson
Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.
- Steven Lopez
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
- Rosamund Lupton
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
- Charles Mackay
So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
- Cormac Mccarthy
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
- Marilyn Manson
If I could get down on my knees and ask for your forgiveness I would," he said "but I'm afraid that along with misplaced manners, yesterday's accident has also taken away my ability to grovel properly."-Landon
- Shawn Kirsten Maravel
Will you be all right? she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.
- Carol Matas
Oh, my dear, you musn't be offended just because I've taken away from you the satisfaction of thinking that you have been deceiving me all these months.
- W Somerset Maugham
What would you say you've taken away from all this? ... That running away solves nothing? That my desperate need for a man to fill my life, to make me feel whole, blinded me to what's important?..
- Joan Medlicott
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.
- Sue Miller
Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.
- Chris Moneymaker
pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
- Walter Dean Myers
There was something, both in fiction and in his life (Nabokov), that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.
I could invent violin or be devoured by the void.
- Azar Nafisi
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
- Henri Nouwen
She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.
- Maggie O Farrell
Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
- Heather O Neill
Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
- Heather O Neill
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
- Pat Oliphant
If one day I was taken away...would you wait for me to come back?"
Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?"
"Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else."
"No."
I swallowed and blinked back tears.
"I'd go after you," he said.
- Kelly Parra
But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
- Sally Pearson
Don't love anything that can be taken away.
- Ron Rash
You hate me now. I knew you'd be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn't see you die.
- Lynsay Sands
I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.
- Jeanette Winterson
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
- Sidney Sheldon
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you're falling to the floor crying thinking, "I am falling to the floor crying," but there's an element of the ridiculous to it you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you're on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn't paint it very well.
- Richard Siken
I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
- Richard Simmons
Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
- Ashlee Simpson
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.
- Obert Skye
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
- Logan P Smith
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.
- Courtney Summers
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
- Alexander Theroux
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
- Dorothy Thompson
I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.
- Victoria Toensing
You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.
- Yasutaka Tsutsui
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.
- Charles Tupper
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
- Charles Tupper
there is something admirable... to have to coexist...
some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a
last judgment has been taken away.
- Raoul Vaneigem
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- George Washington
...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
- George Washington
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
- Emma Watson
Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.
- Nancy Werlin
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
- Tennessee Williams
The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.
- Joseph B Wirthlin
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
When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night..
- Ai Yazawa
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.
- Howard Zinn
- Mark Twain
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.
- J R R Tolkien
Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why they were taken away from you, but a reason to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit. And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better.
- Cecelia Ahern
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
- Cecelia Ahern
Everything that could happen, but it never happened, eventually was taken away by the wind and leaves no trace.The life - this is our actions.
- Paulo Coelho
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.
- Jeff Ament
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
- Fisher Ames
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
- Anaxagoras
I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.
- Stuart Appleby
Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.
- Will Arnett
You don't have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked... very much... and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.
- Kristen Ashley
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way....
....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds.
Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.
- Julia Quinn
I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.
- Michele Bachmann
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
- William Barclay
..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.
- Clive Barker
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
- L Frank Baum
After the small woman had left, Ushikawa stared at the door for the longest time. She had shut the door behind her, but there was still a strong sense of her in the room. Maybe in exchange for leaving a trace of herself behind, she had taken away a part of Ushikawa's soul. He could feel that new void within his chest. Why did this happen? he wondered, finding it odd. And what could it possibly mean?
- Haruki Murakami
A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.
- Sylvester Stallone
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
- James Blunt
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
- Erma Bombeck
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!
- Russell Brand
i miss my brother like
the sea would miss salt
if that were taken away.
- Emma Cameron
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
- Suzanne Collins
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetative. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.
- Suzanne Collins
It feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm affraid it could be taken away.
That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after twenty years.
But there are far worse games to play
- Suzanne Collins
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
- Donald Cargill
I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.
- Giacomo Casanova
The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
- Vinton Cerf
The pain I had clenched in my heart, began to release itself and I felt a rush of fear. Fear for my sisters and Sabina. Fear for the future and, most of all, fear for the newly found love I had with Henry. All of it could be taken away in the Fates' breath, and I was afraid.
- Katlyn Charlesworth
By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.
- Stephen King
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
- Agatha Christie
Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.
- Clamp
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
- David Allan Coe
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
- Douglas Coupland
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
- Ted Cruz
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
- Edwidge Danticat
We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
- Cecilia Dart Thornton
I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.
- Hope Davis
There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.
- Lauren Destefano
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.
- Philip K Dick
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
- Cameron Dokey
Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.
- Louise Doughty
I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.
- Jaycee Dugard
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Martin Luther King Jr
She had realised that they couldn't be together. She didn't want to make a romantic drama out of it, she didn't want to sigh and mope or scream hysterically to impress others with how awful it all was, even though she felt as if something fundamental, deep within her, had been taken away from her. She was simply trying to cope, to get on with her own normal life. Which, she knew, was something he could not be a part of.
- Harriet Evans
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.
- Nelson Mandela
I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
- Jane Fonda
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
- Michael J Fox
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Michael J Fox
If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.
- Michael J Fox
Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.
- James Patterson
Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
- Anna Friel
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
- Stephen Fry
That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.
- John Fund
I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.
- Jeff Garcia
By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.
- Jim Gerlach
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
- William Golding
I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam
- Charlaine Harris
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.
- Rutger Hauer
For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.
- Henry Hazlitt
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
- Dorothy Height
Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.
- Lauren Henderson
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
- J K Rowling
Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
- Steven Herrick
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
- Aldous Huxley
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
- Jean Paul Sartre
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
- Christopher Isherwood
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
- Helmut Jahn
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
- Derek Jarman
I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.
So much for me. I am just fine.
- Walter Wangerin Jr
We're taught to love only a few people. We think it's this sacred resource, like we'll run out of it at some point. But the more you love, the more it's returned to you. Hands down. You can't argue with that."
"Maybe," I say. "Or maybe you stop giving it so freely because one day it's taken away and it hurts so much, you need to protect yourself."
She know what I'm referring to. "Until you realize love's the only think worth living for in the first place.
- Katie Kacvinsky
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
- Jack Kevorkian
when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
- Marian Keyes
I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.
- Shahrukh Khan
When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
- Jeff Kinney
And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.
- Markus Zusak
I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.
- Dorothy Koomson
Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.
- Steven Lopez
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
- Rosamund Lupton
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
- Charles Mackay
So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
- Cormac Mccarthy
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
- Marilyn Manson
If I could get down on my knees and ask for your forgiveness I would," he said "but I'm afraid that along with misplaced manners, yesterday's accident has also taken away my ability to grovel properly."-Landon
- Shawn Kirsten Maravel
Will you be all right? she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.
- Carol Matas
Oh, my dear, you musn't be offended just because I've taken away from you the satisfaction of thinking that you have been deceiving me all these months.
- W Somerset Maugham
What would you say you've taken away from all this? ... That running away solves nothing? That my desperate need for a man to fill my life, to make me feel whole, blinded me to what's important?..
- Joan Medlicott
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.
- Sue Miller
Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.
- Chris Moneymaker
pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
- Walter Dean Myers
There was something, both in fiction and in his life (Nabokov), that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.
I could invent violin or be devoured by the void.
- Azar Nafisi
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
- Henri Nouwen
She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.
- Maggie O Farrell
Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
- Heather O Neill
Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
- Heather O Neill
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
- Pat Oliphant
If one day I was taken away...would you wait for me to come back?"
Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?"
"Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else."
"No."
I swallowed and blinked back tears.
"I'd go after you," he said.
- Kelly Parra
But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
- Sally Pearson
Don't love anything that can be taken away.
- Ron Rash
You hate me now. I knew you'd be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn't see you die.
- Lynsay Sands
I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.
- Jeanette Winterson
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
- Sidney Sheldon
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you're falling to the floor crying thinking, "I am falling to the floor crying," but there's an element of the ridiculous to it you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you're on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn't paint it very well.
- Richard Siken
I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
- Richard Simmons
Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
- Ashlee Simpson
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.
- Obert Skye
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
- Logan P Smith
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.
- Courtney Summers
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
- Alexander Theroux
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
- Dorothy Thompson
I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.
- Victoria Toensing
You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.
- Yasutaka Tsutsui
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.
- Charles Tupper
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
- Charles Tupper
there is something admirable... to have to coexist...
some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a
last judgment has been taken away.
- Raoul Vaneigem
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- George Washington
...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
- George Washington
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
- Emma Watson
Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.
- Nancy Werlin
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
- Tennessee Williams
The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.
- Joseph B Wirthlin
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
When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night..
- Ai Yazawa
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.
- Howard Zinn
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