Given Quotes
7676 quotes by 4565 authors
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Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to…
— George Orwell
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I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating…
— David Mitchell
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Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time…
— Yukio Mishima
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found…
— Robert Frost
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The kiss was the definition of perfect. True, it lacked the heat, the passion, the breathlessness of the living-world kiss she had given Milos, but…
— Neal Shusterman
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People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be…
— Howard Schultz
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We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.
— Leo Rosten
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that…
— Alan Lightman
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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
— Joseph Heller
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oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start…
— Cecelia Ahern
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to…
— Leo Tolstoy
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By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep…
— Johanna Lindsey
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It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became…
— Diana Gabaldon
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There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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