Gives Quotes - page 35

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level. View quote
Kofi Annan
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. View quote
Thomas Paine
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. View quote
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. View quote
Thomas Paine
The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side - the side of corruption and prerogative. View quote
William Hazlitt
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? View quote
William Hazlitt
The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught. View quote
John Amos Comenius
Both Joanne and I can recall many times when we wish we'd said or done something different. But we didn't, and we've learned not to feel too guilty about that. What gives me my good feelings is that we always cared and always tried to do our best. View quote
Fred Rogers
We forget very easily what gives us pain. (Graham Greene)
Valuing family more than job gives perspectives to politics. It puts the politician in the proper place, which is somewhere less than being the self-perceived agent of God. If family comes first, the politician needs to find ways to make that clear- by words, symbols and actions. The politician must make the effort. By its nature, the job will not do it for him. View quote
John Danforth
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious. View quote
Paulo Coelho
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Every day, God gives us the sun - and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. View quote
Paulo Coelho
He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho) View quote
Pelé
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. View quote
Blaise Pascal
To-day the most comprehensive system of social security ever introduced into any country would start in Britain. The four Acts-National Insurance, Industrial Injuries, National Assistance, and National Health Service-represented the main body of the army of social security... We cannot create a scheme which gives the nation a whole more than they put into it, and it is always the general level of production that settles our standard of material well-being. Only higher output can give us more of the things we all need. This will decide the real value of the money payments. (Clement Attlee)
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child. View quote
Tracey Ullman
The hangover theory, then, turns out to be intellectually incoherent; nobody has managed to explain why bad investments in the past require the unemployment of good workers in the present. Yet the theory has powerful emotional appeal. Usually that appeal is strongest for conservatives, who can't stand the thought that positive action by governments (let alone-horrors!-printing money) can ever be a good idea. Some libertarians extol the Austrian theory, not because they have really thought that theory through, but because they feel the need for some prestigious alternative to the perceived statist implications of Keynesianism. And some people probably are attracted to Austrianism because they imagine that it devalues the intellectual pretensions of economics professors. But moderates and liberals are not immune to the theory's seductive charms-especially when it gives them a chance to lecture others on their failings. View quote
Paul Krugman
He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
For what gives my work its peculiar quality, and what is most remarkable in the present age, is this. Fortune has guided almost all the affairs of the world in one direction and has forced them to incline towards one and the same end; a historian should likewise bring before his readers under one synoptical view the operations by which she has accomplished her general purpose. View quote
Polybius