A Quote by Epicurus

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Epicurus

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Epicurus
Greek - Philosopher
341 BC - 270 BC

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

Madonna Ciccone

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

Epictetus

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Epictetus

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Katherine Paterson

It's hard for me to say really, I've never taken any relationship seriously apart from this one. I'd never given any thought to getting married, ever, apart from Vogue.

Spencer Matthews

As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back into Iraq.

John McCain

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

William Powell

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

Cameron Dokey

I'm in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

Drake

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

Idries Shah

... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.

Joanna Russ

Equality is never given, it is taken.

Jane Bryant Quinn

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

Sylvia Kristel

Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

Andy Garcia

On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.

Jim Webb

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