Taking Quotes

On building homes for fallen angels:When I was small - I sought a home,a place to go and rest my bones.Then founded something, of my own,I lived among the restless stones.If seeking leads you back to evil,what good is that, I asked a weevil.He said a home is what you make,it can't be real, if it is fake...And if you wait instead of seek,will you find love, or something bleak?I know (myself) for I have found,a beauty, hidden – in a sound.Waiting is boring.And so is exploring.A smile is sometimes all it takes.And then your whole world simply breaks.

~ Will Advise

THE UNFORGIVENTell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:The kind who take and don't give.The kind to whom you give and give,And they keep asking.The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing.The kind whom have never offered anything,But act like they're the ones providingEVERYTHING.The kind you give and give,But take more than you can give.And when they have already taken everything,They get mad at you when you say you haveNothing more to give.The unforgiving,The misgiving,Wastefully living -And selfishly driven.The rat that never gives back,Yet is so quick to attack -Because they think the wordTAKINGSeriously meansGIVING.

~ Suzy Kassem

He saw clearly, immediately, that the man didn't care about the gift's value, didn't care about the gift even, but cared profoundly for the act of receiving as though the gift were a tribute, a confirmation of his self, his being, his reality. He found no pleasure in what he was taking but in the act of taking itself.

~ Ninotchka Rosca

How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A gossip or a patient listener? Did you add value to the world, or did you simply take from it? Did you add value to the lives of others, or did you take the value out of someone's life? Were you a plus or negative? Meaningful or meaningless? Do you live to take or live to give?

~ Suzy Kassem

During sex, people are often way too focused on giving or taking to actually just celebrate this moment, be themselves completely, and rejoice in their own realities.

~ Roberto Hogue

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

~ Criss Jami

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.

~ Katja Michael

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

~ Suzy Kassem

The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them.

~ Steven Magee

I advise people to be careful about taking advice from long term Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) victims. If they have had it for decades and have not cleared it up, then you can discount what they have to say regarding curing the condition. However, they are an excellent resource on the biological harm of electromagnetic fields (EMF), EMF avoidance and low EMF products.

~ Steven Magee

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Faith and hope mean absolutely nothing where consistent action fails to exist.

~ Hafiz

I recently cleared up my Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS). The condition is real, it has a sound foundation as to why it occurs in the human, and can be cleared up by taking the appropriate steps.

~ Steven Magee

There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back—all their lives.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

~ Criss Jami

All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take.

~ Hermann Hesse

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

~ Oswald Chambers

People die of love. I’m one of the few who’ll admit it. That doesn’t mean it isn’t true.Take all the people who died yesterday, or last week, or last year. Subtract all the suicides and the so-called accidents of the brokenhearted. Take away the men who got blown away for being in the wrong bed at the wrong moment, the women in abusive marriages who died of cancer because they couldn’t find any other exit from their lives. All the AIDS deaths except from the needles and the transfusions, the ones they call the innocent victims. Like if you have sex, you’re guilty. Deserved just what you got.Now tell me who all you’ve got left.Without love the world would be overpopulated, except that without love it wouldn’t be populated at all. Love giveth and love taketh away and all that crap. You’ll probably say all those people died from the lack of love, but I say it’s two sides of the same coin. So it’s the same coin.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didn’t understand most of my life is that sharing includes serving oneself. It is a subtle distinction, one too subtle for most adults, though most children understand it.

~ Robert Peate

One thing I've learned: you never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

~ Hilary Swank

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

~ Christopher Nolan

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

~ Max Eastman

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

~ Mother Teresa

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

~ Floyd Mayweather

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

~ Gloria Steinem

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

~ Mark Twain

I love taking chances.

~ Wayne Newton

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

~ Pedro Martinez

Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

~ Pitbull