Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
Maurice Strong

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
Julia Margaret Cameron

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.
William S. Burroughs

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
John Hughes

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
Steven Tyler

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
Steven Tyler

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
Ani DiFranco

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

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.
Dawn French

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
Charlie Watts

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
Dennis Rodman

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
Geddy Lee