We Gave Quotes
84 We Gave quotes by 78 unique authors
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...Chemicals(:)...We not only don't know what's going on out there is dangerous ~ we don't even know what is going on out there. It's what…
— Russell E. Train
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They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for…
— John Marsden
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[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We…
— Oliver Stone
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I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just…
— Rosa Parks
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One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things…
— Dennis Hastert
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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.
— Les Dawson
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The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without…
— Marianne Williamson
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We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing…
— Philip Gibbs
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Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.
— Phil Ochs
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In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act…
— Roy Barnes
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Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have…
— Simon Sinek
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We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone…
— Jasmine Guy
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We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96…
— Jesse Jackson
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We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would…
— Chief Joseph
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We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
— Chief Joseph
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If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
— James Lovelock
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We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and…
— Brian Mulroney
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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
— Colin Powell
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When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to…
— Anne Lamott
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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we…
— Charles M. Schulz
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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man..
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they…
— Alan Moore
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