Given Quotes
7676 quotes by 4565 authors
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Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
— George S. Clason
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
— Philippa Gregory
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To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we…
— Amy Carmichael
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These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives…
— Terry Pratchett
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She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.
— Lloyd Alexander
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Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people…
— Neil Gaiman
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If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God…
— Helen Fielding
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong;…
— Booker T. Washington
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I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I…
— J R Ward
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But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want." "Hey, what about the ugly ones?" "The ugly ones." She poked her tongue…
— Hanif Kureishi
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We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to…
— Amin Maalouf
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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give…
— Frank Herbert
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Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins…
— Terry Brooks
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I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.…
— Dan Barker
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... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and…
— Alan Garner
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And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given…
— Anne Lamott
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Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when…
— Jane Austen
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