Not Taken Quotes

#1. A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without

Moises Naim

#2. I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

RZA

#3. I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Rick Perlstein

#4. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken.

Helen Simonson

#5. I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

T.E. Lawrence

#6. You're not using me. You're mine. You are my own personal goddess. It's my job to make sure you're happy. And if I can't make you happy, I won't feel right if you're not taken care of as best as I can. So please, tell me how many people so I can feel right.

C.D. Reiss

#7. A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

Garrett Camp

#8. One of the things about what ... I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.

Wendy Wasserstein

#9. And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn't just the inverse of who I am. It's an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life...

Blake Crouch

#10. So many times we look for those things in life we can measure ... The college degree, the money we earn, the success we brag about ... But the little things in life, the minute moments ... not taken for granted, the value of their treasure is substantial all the more.

Samuel S. Sumner

#11. The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

Laozi

#12. And into the close and mirrored catacombs of sleep
We'll fall, and there in the faded light discover the bones,
The dust, the bitter remains of someone who might have been
Had we not taken his place.

Mark Strand

#13. First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

#14. But it did no good to brood on lost battles and roads not taken.

George R R Martin

#15. There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

Jane Austen

#16. All that has happened is that you have not taken charge of your thoughts and feelings.

Peter W. Murphy

#17. I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

Robert Breault

#18. I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

S.E. Hinton

#19. Midville's best street was High Street. It was up on a hill. Not much of a hill, to tell the truth, but in that part of the state, the flat south-central part, hills are not taken for granted.

Natalie Babbitt

#20. Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#21. A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

Paulo Coelho

#22. I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.

Sean Astin

#23. The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

Lisa Wingate

#24. At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity7 of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.

Sigmund Freud

#25. I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

William S. Burroughs

#26. Victories in the field count for little if the right decisions are not taken at home (45) - Cicero

Anthony Everitt

#27. Those more deeply informed about the period are much more cognisant of the roads not taken.

Yuval Noah Harari

#28. Victories in the field," he commented, "count for little if the right decisions are not taken at home.

Anthony Everitt

#29. The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

Alastair Campbell

#30. Mankind is a young race, my son.
O yes..even a very young one.
We couldn't stand a damned chance
to be here now on earth..and live in this flesh,
if not taken care of by the older ones, our real parents.

Toba Beta

#31. I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Stanley Tucci

#32. Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature,

Alex Epstein

#33. I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

Shakira

#34. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#35. At first when the Paladin heard us tell about the glories of the Royal Audience he was broken-hearted because he was not taken with us to it; next, his talk was full of what he would have done if he had been there; and within two days he was telling what he did do when he was there.

Mark Twain

#36. The power of love is not properly gauged if it is estimated only by the object that inspires it, if the tension preceding it is not taken into account - that gloomy space of disillusionment and loneliness which stretches in front of all the great events of the heart.

Stefan Zweig

#37. I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken.

Ally Condie

#38. I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost ... but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth
other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

Sylvia Plath

#39. No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Jen Lancaster

#40. I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

George Hamilton

#41. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking . I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

Jenny Han

#42. He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate

Salman Rushdie

#43. The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

Seth

#44. People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Ernest Hemingway,

#45. A chance not taken is an opportunity missed.

Ken Petti

#46. It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#47. I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [ ... ]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

Davy Rothbart

#48. There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Charles Dudley Warner

#49. The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken. (pg. 125)

Ellen F. Davis

#50. Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear - except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.

Joan D. Chittister

#51. As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later, the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

Victor Hugo

#52. I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.

Cory Monteith

#53. No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

William James

#54. I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#55. I'm very, very so-called conservative on the military. I want a very, very strong military. I want to build up - you know, our military is totally depleted. We're going to care of our vets as part of that whole situation because our vets are not taken care of properly.

Donald Trump

#56. The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#57. One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

#58. I'd not taken you for a fool. Silent yes, but a fool, no.

Erika Swyler

#59. Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

Maximillian Degenerez

#60. I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.

Steven R. McQueen

#61. Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.

Ethan Watters

#62. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#63. We fear more than the loss of anything else the disappearance of possessions that have remained outside ourselves, because our hearts have not taken possession of them.

Marcel Proust

#64. But many of these misdeeds were like the subtle muscular movements which are not taken account of in the consciousness, though they bring about the end that we fix our mind on and desire.

George Eliot

#65. There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.

Elisabeth Eaves

#66. You are someone else's road not taken

Adam Copeland

#67. No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

Blaise Pascal

#68. Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.

Mark Batterson

#69. I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

Robert Breault

#70. But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Hugh Miller

#71. He also gives a good picture of the profound chaos unleashed in Muslim countries in 1924 by Ataturk's sudden abolition of the caliphate, an institution they had superficially not taken much notice of but which was central to a Muslim's whole identity.

Tom Reiss

#72. Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

Matthew Henry

#73. One always wonders about roads not taken.

Warren Christopher

#74. Being thankful to the road not taken, ... because only right things at right time give uh pleasure and success.

Lovely Goyal

#75. You may end up with a great website or mobile app, but you have learnt nothing in the process and have not taken ownership of your digital strategy.

Anonymous

#76. The choice not taken ceases to exist once that decision is made. A person might as well regret the direction of the wind, or the shape of a cloud.

Stuart Neville

#77. Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.

D. M. Turner

#78. I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

Jennifer Ehle

#79. The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.

Lynda Bellingham

#80. If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability.

Justine Kurland

#81. I am not single and I'm not taken. I'm simply on reserve for one who deserves me.

Jeffree Star

#82. Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

Robert Breault

#83. It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Nadia Boulanger

#84. He occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. He no longer represented someday, a possibility. He represented a road not taken, a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see where it went anymore.

Ann Brashares

#85. Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Henry Cloud

#86. The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers ... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

Frederick Buechner

#87. Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires.

Steven Redhead

#88. Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to salvation. You admit that you have not taken these decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you are not in Christ.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#89. And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.

Pearl S. Buck

#90. For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

Rio Ferdinand

#91. When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

Ulrich Beck

#92. Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

Amelia Earhart

#93. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".

Fred Rogers

#94. So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Gloria Steinem

#95. I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

Tommy Franks

#96. The group was not afraid of being radical either; they could see the good Roosevelt was doing, despite what Mother and Dad said; they were not taken in by party labels and thought the Democrats should be given a chance to show what they had up their sleeve.

Mary McCarthy

#97. It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth.

Henry Peach Robinson

#98. For a fraction of a second, we were together, and it had felt divine. Not nice. Not safe. Not taken for granted. It was short and beautiful and painfully memorable. Like the tree I was obsessed with.

L.J. Shen

#99. Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

Anne Tyler

#100. The risk not taken is more dangerous than the risk taken.

Andy Dunn