If a writer is to tell his own story – tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people – if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art – this craft – he must first have been given some hope.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
When you find yourself in a certain situation you have to identify where you want to go and focus on what you can achieve on that given day.
I’ve never got on with the British press because they’ve always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn’t concentrate on the colour of someone’s shirt they should listen to the music.
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I’m really thankful for my journey. And it’s a journey I didn’t design.
Whatever God has given me, I feel blessed but I don’t take it for granted.
Don’t get too comfortable with who you are at any given time – you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.
When someone saves your life and gives you life, there’s gratitude, humility; there’s a time you’ve been so blessed you realize you’ve been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn’t deserve.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn’t give up on anyone who hasn’t given up on themselves.
I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
It doesn’t help me to burn bridges, but I’m not going to sit back and be given blame when I don’t deserve it.
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I’m on a horse, I’m more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect.
And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we’ve never… I’ve never given birth, but I feel like it’s part of our psychology.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.
I am grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
I am really surprised bitcoin isn’t more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn’t tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.
When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you’re given lectures about how it’s really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.
‘Rome’ was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons ’cause I would have loved to continue watching it.
I usually have three to four bands a year going at any given point.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
You don’t want to overthink; you want to just stick with what you’ve been given.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was… name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.
We will not give up the fight to ensure that mental health is the given the priority it needs and deserves.
You can only ask someone of their best. That’s it. If you lose, and you’ve given your best, that’s how it goes.
God’s given me a gift to be able to put people in the right position, where their strengths are!
There are people who help you in life. I’ve been given a helping hand, and that’s why I feel it’s my duty to help younger artists.
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
I want to start a foundation called Second Chance. I was given a second chance, so I want to reach out to different groups of people. It would be nice to give that opportunity to others.
There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment’s thought to anything, and comprehend everything. ‘Blessed hands’ is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.
I haven’t been given many things, but I’ve been given ample, limitless patience.
Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don’t be intimidated. Read your Bible. That’s really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God’s name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
The only thing I can control is working as hard as I possibly can to do a good job and make people right on the opportunities that they’ve given me.
Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn’t feel that way, maybe because I’m older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn’t knock me down.
Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable.
In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
A man who’s never seen war is like a woman who’s never given birth – soft in the head.
God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be – how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we’d actually be having an argument about those values.
Why do I leave the March for Life every year happier than when I came? Hope and gratefulness are the reasons. Gratefulness for the life we have and the life we’ve given and hope for the future, to live in a world where abortion becomes unthinkable.
