Given Quotes
7676 quotes by 4565 authors
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From…
— Haruki Murakami
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Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a…
— Karen Marie Moning
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And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and…
— David Levithan
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I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood…
— Nicole Krauss
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Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.
— Jillian Michaels
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What have you stuffed in your pants, MacKeltar?" she demanded. "Nothing that wasn't God-given," he replied stiffly. Gwen stared. "There's no way that's part of…
— Karen Marie Moning
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This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to…
— Mira Grant
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We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because…
— Lauren Child
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‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.
— Dwight L. Moody
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men…
— Aldous Huxley
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Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot…
— Tom Robbins
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I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "More than anything. I'm only half without you." "Then you are…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.
— Derek Landy
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You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you…
— Simone Elkeles
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Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we…
— Gerry Spence
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She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.
— Kristin Cashore
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By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock…
— Albert Hofmann
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The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
— Janet Jackson
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