Given Quotes - page 14

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me. (John Mayer)
And what do I want people to get from the music? Whatever they want. Whatever you like. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to...just to give back to it what it's given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it...just to be in the world, really. View quote
Jeff Buckley
Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud. View quote
Glenn Gould
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. View quote
Orson Scott Card
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life. View quote
Morarji Desai
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. View quote
Jay Leno
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
A person can get used to anything, if given enough time. (Nicholas Sparks)
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life. View quote
Albert Finney
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me. View quote
William Tyndale
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece. View quote
Anthony de Mello
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists. View quote
Paul Farmer
Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had. View quote
Willa Cather
All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic. View quote
Nicole Richie
My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school. View quote
Elaine Paige
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Don't you drink I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky When you are cold and wet what else can warm you Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. (Ernest Hemingway)
We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - "this is just the way it is" - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver. View quote
Yanni
When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach. View quote
Thiruvalluvar