No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
Gloria Estefan

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
Cher

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Michael Ignatieff

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Tryon Edwards

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
Kemal Ataturk

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
Ville Valo

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Cameron Diaz

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
Sidney Sheldon

Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Cesare Pavese

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
Justin Timberlake