#taken

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. ↗

— Eric Carle

#book #certain #distance #done #how

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#concerts #evening #i #old #sat

I've never taken myself too seriously. ↗

— Omar Epps

#myself #never #seriously #taken #too

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bring #half #joy #sweet #taken

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away. ↗

— Stuart Appleby

#get #given #i #many #ones

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

Lessons are not given, they are taken. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#lessons #taken

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #appropriation #books #buy #buying

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ↗

— Robert Frost

#the-road-not-taken #age

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#culture #impossible #now #oneself #right