#taken

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#human #human affairs #serious #seriously #taken

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#relationship #substitute #supplied #taken-for-granted #utterly

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#been #crisis #economic #economic crisis #financial

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken. ↗

— Ashley Olsen

#home #i #person #picture #rather

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit. ↗

— Ted Olson

#bit #center #course #crashed #devastated

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life. ↗

— Carre Otis

#adult life #being #born #childhood #diversity

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#daughter #day #everyone #film #get

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#direction #into #magnitude #taken #which