#taken

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

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

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women. ↗

— John Bright

#does #granted #hope #i #may

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#day #i #i think #psychic #sort

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#been #like #part #people #seriously

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#man #nothing #serious #seriously #should

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#against #christian #communism #driving #driving force

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#average #aware #business #comment #get

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#capitalist #does #fact #full #general

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#also #charles #college #ever #fairly