Top 100 Taken In Quotes
#1. For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.
Phoebe Cary
#2. Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
Xenophon
#3. The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.
Julian Jaynes
#4. Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.
Karin Slaughter
#5. My eyes are tiny but they've taken in a world full of wonderful.
Natalie Lloyd
#6. Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.
Julian Barnes
#7. I used to wonder what it would look like if all my footsteps were painted red: all the steps I'd ever taken in all the places I'd ever been.
Kirsten Hubbard
#8. Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.
Vivian Gornick
#9. Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.
John Newton
#10. People search for the inner meanings of life instead of living it to the fullest. Life is too beautiful to be analyzed. Living is a spontaneous response meant to be taken in a stride.
Adhish Mazumder
#14. I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence ... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.
Mona Kuhn
#16. He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
Plautus
#17. There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.
Edith Schaeffer
#18. A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day
#19. People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.
Todd Lieberman
#20. Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger
#21. After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Lionel Trilling
#22. Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.
Richard Grasso
#23. A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.
Terry Pratchett
#24. It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
Robert Frost
#25. Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;
Robert Harris
#26. A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
Joseph Roth
#27. We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous ... but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
Steve Maraboli
#28. Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Robert Graves
#29. Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
Edward Burnett Tylor
#30. It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#31. [W]e ignore the Whole, we're taken in by the parts. We're seduced by objects of our consciousness
Steve Hagen
#32. In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.
Douglas Fairbanks
#33. Expression is like a step taken in the fog
no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#34. if a theorem is geometrically obvious why prove it? This was exactly the attitude taken in the eighteenth century. The result, in the nineteenth century, was chaos and confusion: for intuition, unsupported by logic, habitually assumes that everything is much nicer behaved than it really is. Good
Ian Stewart
#35. What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
Plato
#36. There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
Aldous Huxley
#37. People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
Samuel Johnson
#38. None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
#39. A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Salman Rushdie
#40. Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
Watchman Nee
#41. The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!
Charles Dickens
#42. Pakistan has not recognized Israel ... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.
Shaukat Aziz
#43. You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.
Robert Penn Warren
#44. The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. ... All history is taken in by stones.
Susan Griffin
#45. Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.
John Wesley
#46. A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.
Felipe Alfau
#48. Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#49. Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.
Woodrow Wilson
#50. I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
Lech Walesa
#51. She deftly snatches her mace and holds it in her purse for cover. She's totally not about to be taken in by some pale silver eyed maniac.
Solange Nicole
#52. If the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his home, he will be sent back to his parents, to teach them thus how to take advantage of their good opportunities.
Maria Montessori
#53. Making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.
Amy Harmon
#54. The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever
#55. In the case of "A Rape on Campus," the risk of being taken in was compounded by Ms. Erdely's approach. She was steered to "Jackie," as she referred to the University of Virginia student in question, by a party with a vested interest: a rape survivor and sexual assault activist on campus.
Anonymous
#56. Art is aesthetic communication of the soul - in fact, it's the best of that communication - and taken in its entirety has formed a body of work to stand alongside Science and Religion as one of the three great constructs of culture to aid the individual in his or her struggle to survive in Nature.
Anthony Marais
#57. I was stolen from my family by Navajo raiders when I was fourteen, and taken in by a Navajo family who had lost a daughter of their own." Josefina
Kathleen Ernst
#58. I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white families and white churches, and they all tell me'Naima, you were blessed to be raised by Black Americans.'
Kola Boof
#59. While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
Ansel Adams
#60. Her name, he says like the Lord's taken in vain. Sometimes he says "Mexico," and the word has nothing in it at all. A wall with no colors painted on it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
Charles Dickens
#62. It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.
Derick Hougaard
#63. Each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.
Gelsey Kirkland
#64. We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings.
Charles Dance
#65. Twelve percent of all the photographs ever taken in human history have been taken in the last twelve months. And 40 percent of them are on Facebook.
Charles Stross
#66. Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for nothing destructive flirt and devil.
Cecil Woodham-Smith
#67. The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.
Arlo Bates
#68. A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance
Aristotle.
#69. President Bartlet:
There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
Aaron Sorkin
#70. Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.
Jaggi Vasudev
#71. The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.
Steve Almond
#72. I never realized, you know, how much we rely on appearances," he said. "It's not that we're so smart, it's just that we don't look like we did it. We might as well be a bunch of Sunday-school teachers as far as everyone else is concerned. But these guys won't be taken in by that.
Donna Tartt
#73. By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.
Jack Kerouac
#74. Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.
Aeschylus
#75. All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
Imtiaz Ali
#76. The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.
Melina Marchetta
#77. Sometimes decisions that are taken in the nick of a moment are the ones that have the power to affect a whole train of events that follow.
Preeti Shenoy
#78. Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.
Robert Bateman
#79. Precautions to be taken in the case
Of freak reincarnation: what to do
On suddenly discovering that you
Are now a young and vulnerable toad
Plump in the middle of a busy road,
Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine,
Or a book mite in a revived divine.
Vladimir Nabokov
#80. The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.
Hilaire Belloc
#81. There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.
Jane Austen
#82. I think I get almost every piece of clothing that I buy altered and taken in just to fit me exactly the way it should.
Misty Copeland
#84. The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.
Roger Scruton
#85. regimen limits sugars enough that inadequate filament is taken in, the danger increments for slow processing. Also, when an excess of red meats are expended,
Kennedy Smith
#86. Now be a good little sociopath and shut the fuck up while you get taken in for medical treatment." In
J.R. Ward
#87. At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.
Rose McGowan
#88. There was an interesting early relationship between physics and biology in which biology helped physics in the discovery of the conservation of energy, which was first demonstrated by Mayer in connection with the amount of heat taken in and given out by a living creature.
Richard Feynman
#90. Life has become a bitter drink to me, and yet it must be taken in drops, counted one by one.
Soren Kierkegaard
#91. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Doris Lessing
#92. Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the coming, the sitting - everything is done in full awareness.
Rajneesh
#93. Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.
Virginia Woolf
#94. Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#95. A chain of follies had put him there: Call's abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked.
Larry McMurtry
#96. What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf
#97. 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
#98. It is not advisable to hasten development, because everything needs time. Patience, perseverance and tenacity are fundamental conditions of the development. The pains taken in one's development will be amply rewarded.
Franz Bardon
#99. Snatched out of my own small niche by an unexpected strong current, taken in and surrounded by Jamie and his life. Caught forever among the strange currents that pulsed through this outlandish environment. The
Diana Gabaldon
#100. Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
Russell Baker
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