Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it… — Sophie Anderton Copy Share Image
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form… — Graeme Samuel Copy Share Image
Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best.… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
If the human isn’t responsible for their role in the horse human relationship, horses just don’t get along very well. So that’s… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For who does not know, or does not advert to the fact, that what was given to the Roman Church by Peter,… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have… — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods.… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the… — Midori Snyder Copy Share Image
One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria. — Jeff Yass Copy Share Image
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility. — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
