Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given. — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output… — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
