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Given Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange…
- Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air…
- For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is…
- The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work… — Richard Bach