Given Quotes
7676 quotes by 4565 authors
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a…
— Lloyd Alexander
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You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't…
— Hillary Jordan
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till…
— Haruki Murakami
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I have never given this ring, my soul, to anyone. Azrael has never had any part of this. This is the only part of myself…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to…
— Gail Carriger
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Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
— Stephen Fry
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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
— Michael J. Fox
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given…
— John Fowles
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Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can…
— Peter Lerangis
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When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
— Jack Welch
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God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities…
— Jonathan Sacks
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So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come…
— Marian Keyes
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Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.†Professor Lyall stifled a…
— Gail Carriger
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I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't…
— Meg Cabot
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As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied…
— Claudia Gray
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One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.
— Lisa Kleypas
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The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for…
— Philip K. Dick
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap…
— Ann Voskamp
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Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy…
— Saint Augustine
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