Given Quotes
7676 quotes by 4565 authors
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You forget who submits, Eva,†he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep…
— Sylvia Day
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The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and…
— Sydney J. Harris
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I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we…
— Norman Maclean
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The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in…
— Norman Doidge
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his…
— Victor Hugo
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What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks…
— P. C. Cast
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Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the…
— C.S. Lewis
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It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't…
— Sylvia Brownrigg
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Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken…
— Laurie R. King
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It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God…
— Helen Keller
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There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.
— Karen Marie Moning
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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed,…
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better…
— Paul Eluard
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should,…
— Veronica Roth
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others…
— Tennessee Williams
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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
— David Levithan
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Is it crazy right now to say I love you?†She didn’t even pause. “Given that I just stabbed you? Seems a little weird, yeah.
— Rachel Caine
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