Quotation Explorer - 'Gave'

A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings. - Matshona Dhliwayo
God gave you life to live happily not to suffer heavily. I felt sufferment. - Nadair Desmar
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words. - Ovid
The sun gave us our eyes to see the beauty of nature, his creation, through his light. - Debasish Mridha
Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition. - Ian McNulty
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next. - Laurence Overmire
I’d do anything for you. And she knew he meant it. Even before you healed me, you gave my life back, a reason for living. I adore you, I worship you. I love you beyond all reason. - Ava Gray
God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth to be used in that proportion - Anonymous
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. - Farrah Fawcett
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. - Bible
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. - Bible
I'm convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. - Justin Steckbauer
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up. - Stephen Fry
I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any. - Teri Louise Kelly
Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough? - Donna VanLiere
GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us. - Errol Anthony Smythe.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16 - Christopher Hitchens
As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor - Grant Battersby
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. - Finley Peter Dunne
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd. - William Shakespeare
How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away. - Ava
I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort; open up and let the Lord inspire you! - Mary Kate
God created Universe and gave credit to science. - Sandeep Kakkar
Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive. - Shaun Hick
God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. - Farrah Fawcett
De mens bedrijft het kwaad nooit zo hartstochtig en vol overgave als wanneer hij dat doet uit godsdienstige overtuiging. - Umberto Eco
Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure. - André Alexis
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. - Oprah Winfrey
God gave laws to His people to bless them, not to burden them. Every rule either elevates the quality of human life or restores one's relationship with God after a breach. He makes no extraneous demands and He is never capricious. - Charles R. Swindoll
HE didn't realize she was his everything until he gave her up for everything else. - Alexandria Heather
I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her. - Nina LaCour
They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The feeling that i showed u. You took it for granted.The efforts that I made for u.You showed me like they were never counted.The love that I gave u.You act Like u never wanted.Strange - Khan Shamim
He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretched strand of hope, and nicked the strand of life by mistake. He did it with his hands. - Hubert Martin
Is your Life all Messed Up? Wana Make It better? Give it to the one who gave it to you, It'll all Get Better. - Soshail Akash
I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again. - Nikki Rowe
How sad it would be to get to the end of life and realize God gave you wings, but you never used them. - Khrys Vaughan
It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects. - V.S. Naipaul
If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today - Amit Abraham
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. - Oliver DeMille
If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps. - J. Oswald Sanders
The Creator gave man two ears and one mouth;there is a reason why He did so.
In the end, it doesn't matter how much you earned, but how much you gave away with love. - Debasish Mridha
Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door. - Israelmore Ayivor
love the people God gave you because He will need them back one day. - Becky Kinder
To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by - Carew Papritz
If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. - J.M.L. Monsabre
Stab me in the heart; once, twice, more. For it is your own you are stabbing; I gave you mine to hold long ago. No pain will be greater than you leaving with my heart in your hands. Rip me apart or hold it for eternity, in the name of love. - Anonymous
God gave you purpose, the devil can’t stop it, so the person in the mirror must choose success or failure. Choose success! - DeWayne Owens
The problem is, God gave man a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin McLaurin Williams
When she gave you a meal, she gave you herself. - Patricia Cornwell
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. - Robert Jordan
Names have power... And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. - Eleanor - William Ritter
These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about for a day or two, others entertained my thoughts for a year or a few. Each place and person gave me wisdom or growth, and, if I was lucky, sometimes I'd get both. - Hubert Martin
The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it. - Charles Manson
Many of us believe that when we give love , we are getting the love back but sometimes it's just an illusion of what we gave them .. - Akash B Chandran
Loneliness gave me things that no one did. It gave me pain, It gave me strength to gather myself and stand again. It gave me strength to wait for you. - Srinivas Shenoy
I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course. - David Skinner
If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life. - Audrey Conn
I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul. - Bob Dylan
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! - Anaïs Nin
I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver
I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself. - Abby Norman
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me. - Judy Blume
My short love story gave me lots of memories but i never wanted memories, I wanted you. - Raaz Ojha
It's not what you got, but what you gave. - Richie Norton
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back. - Joss Whedon
It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important - Margherita Hack
Nothing goes with you except the love that you gave away. - Debasish Mridha
He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out. - Matthew Thomas
They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about everyone’s genitalia to themselves. - Sabrina Zbasnik
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. - Homer
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. - Henny Youngman
Such was the burial they gave to Hector, tamer of horses. - Homer
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. - Saul Bellow
I should’ve died with my parents… than live in this world, I say, my voice is faintHe asks, Why choose to die if you can live this world? He chuckled.I gave him a faint smile and say, A world so hateful, some would rather die, than be who they are. - Alyanna Mallari
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL. - Bob Proctor
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly - Paul Valéry
He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red blood, separated through some fortune and shame in the way of humanity. - Anthony Liccione
God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues. - Sunday Adelaja
Trust GOD with the life He gave you; follow His lead. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
living eulogy.she danced.she sang. she took.she gave.she loved.she created.she dissented. she enlivened.she saw. she grew. she sweated.she changed.she learned. she laughed.she shed her skin.she bled on the pages of her days,she walked through walls,she lived with intention. - Mary Anne Radmacher
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye. - General Douglas MacArthur
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. - Johnny Carson
Trust GOD with the life He gave you. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question. - Richelle Mead
The life mission God gave you was only appointed to you. If you are faithful, God will send someone into your life to support it. If your are blessed, he will send someone who shares your passion. If you are chosen, he will unlock every door that stands in your way. - Shannon L. Alder
…the gavel became an extension of his arm and he used it to bludgeon the court into submission. - William Deihl
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The part I gave you is the wick. It's what makes the lantern work. You are my wick, Farrow. I need you to soar. - Lisa Marie
My Dad gave me wings to my DREAMS. - Merlin Thomas - merlin8thomas
You think I wanted to fall for you? I stayed away from you! I gave him the chance to be with you! But there’s another part of me that asks what if? What if you’re not supposed to be with Ren? What if you were supposed to be the answer to my prayers? Not his! - Colleen Houck
Your eyes gave it away. You don't want the old stuff. You want to have the new and improved Well-being, go with the right people and they'll be right for you. - Auliq Ice
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless. - Isabella MacDonald Alden
She gave thee beauty—blush of fire, That bids the flames of war retire! Woman! be fair, we must adore thee; Smile, and a world is weak before thee! - Anacreon - 485 BC
For crying out loud, absurd things can happen, none of us is spared. He reached out and gave her a soft pat on the back. So screw it, lovey. Enjoy every second you’ve got and stop moping around. - Intomesee - Maha Erwin
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.― - Bob Proctor
once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices ...Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end. - Barbara Brown Taylor
It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way. - Debasish Mridha
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. - Bible
Exactly when will you give up?When things will seem out of your hands ?When situations will seem out of your control?Will you try to control them? Or will you let go?Will you give up then? Or will you keep holding on?Don't tell me that I gave up; I didn't.Because I didn't let go; I just let it be. - Sanhita Baruah
It felt good to be the one holding the blade; the role reversal gave him a much desired feeling of control. - S.R. Ford
Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was.And when nobody else gave a damn I did. - Lil Wayne
The day I realized that sunshine doesn't satisfy everyone. It gave me an understanding of true contentment, which will always be found internally. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. - Steve Jobs
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - James M. Barrie
I wanted to stay like that forever, letting the kiss linger. I was left standing there in awe as he gently pulled away and gave me a warm smile. Let’s go, the others will be wondering where we are, he said playfully. - Andrea Heltsley
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16 - John Apostle
PEACE OF MIND! Mr. Smith gave me peace of mind with a Living Trust. He took the time to tailor the trust for my unique needs and circumstances. Mr. Smith is an outstanding attorney and I greatly value his advice.Sandra R. Vicksta - mkrahman
Beauty is being who God made you to be. Make the most of what you have. He gave you what you are. Nothing about you is by accident. The right people will love you unconditionally, just as He does. - Kate McGahan
i'm in love with every creature on earth.. i don't want nobody to suffer, because i can feel the pain from all of them.. and i want to gave them love.. every creature on earth... - Anonymous
There is one thing you need to do to people who hate you for the way you are and what you do. What's that? The thing you do best. And that would be? Give them hell,and fight back,not violently,but give them reason to not like you. - Advice my friend gave me
The birthing wolf,Her heart fed with tenderness,Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,Food to feed the universe. - Roman Payne
She gave life a meaning. She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and her story was the canvas. - Nikki Rowe
God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge. - Jason Gray
I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.You gave me help when I needed it Jon Snow said.I gave you nothing, Tyrion said. Words.Then give your words to Bran too. - George R.R. Martin
I have never met anyone who gave back a heart they stole. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Blake gave Selena a nudge "Remember what I taught you, itsy-bitsy-babe-ette"She flashed him a mischievous grin and raise the hose." Boom goes the dynamite!"-Demons In Disguise - A&E Kirk
I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists. - David Silverman
There are some feelings you will never find words for; you will learn to name them after the ones who gave them to you. - Maza Dohta
I gave you life. You’re wasting it. - Stephenie Meyer
I knew such a woman once,She gave me everything.Her love like a soft riot singing,She knew how to shine. - Scott Hastie
Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime.
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. - Herbert Hoover
I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery. - Edgar Allan Poe
There is no excuse for failure when you gave up - Shaun Mitchell
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. - Abraham H. Maslow
Life gave me lemons, then I met you and you had Vodka. Now my life is a party. - anmol gandhi
Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. - Israelmore Ayivor
These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago. - Milton Friedman
, But the streets need cleaning, brother," Gromph said. "That is why the gods gave us magic, brother," Jarlaxle replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life. - R.A. Salvatore
And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam. - John Collier
At the end of the day, it’s your life. If you turn out good, the world celebrates you and with you (not minding how you achieved it). If bad, they abandon you (even if they gave you the advice that led you to doom). Just be you and follow your heart. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy. - Patrick Major Dallas OR
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire
It's your words that gave me courage. It became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. -Jellal Fernandes - Hiro Mashima
At the end, nothing will matter except the love that you gave away. - Debasish Mridha
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes
I gave you something you can never give back. Don't you mind? - The 1975
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free. - Mark Twain
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. - Richard Rosen
MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition. - Ambrose Bierce
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead. - Elton John
Once, I took the penny whistle you gave me and discovered a spotby the roaring falls where I could play as loud as I wanted. I lay in the bifurcated trunkof a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked through applauding leaves, high overhead. - Kristen Henderson
I was taught to follow the light, but the light got me lost, I was taught to see the light, but the light blinded my sight.It was the light who gave me judgment, and the judge was cruel and sick,I was taught to love the light, but darkness woke me up, and I was free. - Quetzal
You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you. - Darnell Lamont Walker
I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife. - Roman Payne
Love? Love…what is love? These emotions… are to confusing This pain… won't go away That kiss you gave me… That's what stole me away~omg i wrote this 4 years ago... XPi found it in a old post i made on a different site - Leticia Sanchez me
There is one thing you need to do to people who hate you for the way you are and what you do. What's that? The thing you do best. And that would be? Give them hell. - Advice my friend gave me
She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say. - Kami Garcia
It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember. - Sujish Kandampully
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again! - Rudyard Kipling
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you - William Arthur Ward
Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end. - Ian McEwan
After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a happy to see you kind of experience. - Marilyn Suttle
If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.... - Jacob M. Appel
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. - Ray Dalio
Everyone was born with thought and dream...after a lot of time they just gave up. The life went upon their waist, they couldn't handle it and they fail! - Deyth Banger
If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox. - Christopher Hitchens
I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it? - Richard Bach
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. - Umberto Eco
Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling - Darlenne Susan Girard
Remember: There's a reason the fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers. - Michael Callahan
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge
I gave you up and died a little each day - rassool jibraeel snyman
I want to make people around me happy, because I never know that laughter I gave to them would be my last gift I could offer. - Jimbo J. Antipolo
FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many timesAnd my episodes of deathGave me the powerOver the greatest fearsThe fear of lifeThe fear of self - Mawuena Addo
God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Herr kakkerlakk i fotsid frakk og med for store sko, gikk basar og vant et par kalosjer nummer to. Herr kakkerlakk sa tusen takk! og pakket gaven sammen, skal jeg hjem og vise dem til barna ogg madammen! - Inger Hagerup
Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar. - Israelmore Ayivor
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman
What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret. - Steve Goodier
Give your all to every experience, feel it breathe it appreciate it, nothing lasts forever, when it's gone you'll remember the feeling it once gave you and sometimes that's enough. - Nikki Rowe
Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference. - Ron Brackin
Your value depends on how much love you gave away, not on how much money you have accumulated. - Debasish Mridha
In the end, nothing matters except love you gave away and love you have received. - Debasish Mridha
We will go away and nothing will remain except what we shared and gave away with love. - Debasish Mridha
Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson - Matt Groening
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL. - Bob Proctor
I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better. The lady gave a discriminating smile. I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments. - Henry James
God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible. - Ted Nugent
So walk in love as Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. - Ephesians 5 2
When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving? - Shannon L. Alder
God gave the day, God gave the strength. - Leo Tolstoy
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
People want to know how I know so much. But trueth is .Inlife I have asked more questions than the answers I gave. Its good to ask when you dont know something. Than to assume you know to find you dont know anything. - De philosopher DJ Kyos
A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute - Jalaluddin Rumi
I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it. - Dominic Riccitello
We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep". - Francis Bacon
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. - Rita Rudner
The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man! - John Paul Warren
Einstein gave us a problem he knew we would never solve. - Eric John Mancini
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. - Herbert Hoover
When I made you my Everything, you gave me nothing. If I made you my Nothing would you want to give me everything? - Kate McGahan
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. - Ronald Reagan
Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM. - Henry Johnson Jr
Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn’t help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without a blowjob, they gave him the Pulitzer Prize. - Christopher Bram
In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story. - Shannon L. Alder
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be! - Joyce Meyer
Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for. - Nicki Minaj
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. - Carl Sagan
I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. - Becca Fitzpatrick
All the love you ever gave is waiting for you there at Rainbow Bridge. - Kate McGahan
Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own. - Carl-Gustaf Rossby
Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music. - Anonymous
You gave me the courage to love. To dared to dream for things I never imagined were possible for me. - D.C. Akers
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future. - Daniel Kehlmann
she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless. - Steve Toltz
The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives - Huey Freeman The Boondocks
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. - C.S. Lewis
The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it! - Israelmore Ayivor
The past gave us experience and made us wiser so that we can create a beautiful and brighter future. - Debasish Mridha
Lea was on the floor of a stall hugging a toilet. When she heard the door close, she lifted her head and gave me a half smile of embarrassment.'Gracie, I've been chemically inconvenienced and I don't think I can ever leave this toilet. Take a picture of this so I'll never do it again. - christine zoldenz
I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male. - Kurt Cobain
The mere thought that she was alone and surrounded by books gave her a near-sensuous thrill. As she looked around her room, dark escaper for the slash of light near her lamp, and saw the vague outlines of her books, she asked herself 'Have I not the whole world? - Andrew Wilson
I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me. - Lorii Myers
If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour on one of those crime story shows. - Spaz tastic!!
We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again. - Umar ibn Al-Khattab
Kiekvieno galvoje savos mintys, kiekvieno šaltinio savas vanduo, kiekvienos giminės savi papročiai, kiekvienose lūpose savi žodžiai. - Ričardas Gavelis
Education is the best gift my parent gave me. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. - Jerry Seinfeld
The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter gave rise to fresh insights. - Ivan Klíma
And I suffered you and gave you all my pieces - Ncumisa Mdlokolo
The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay. - George R.R. Martin
I will give you all happinessbecause you gave mehappiness to live for.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue Circle - Petra Hermans
Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
I used to [have regrets]. But I forgave myself. When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it, too.
What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever. - Ethel Percy Andrus
God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future. - Amit Kalantri
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond. - Loren Eiseley
If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour. - Spaz tastic!!
My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis. - Waiter Rant
I gave in, and admitted that God was God. - C.S. Lewis
Value a day only by the love that you gave away. Live every day,not by spending time,but by investing all the way. Dream a daybright with kindnessand a deep compassionate ray. See a day,not with the open eyes,but with the open mind from far away. - Debasish Mridha
You can comfort me with your words and your gifts but it can not comfort me with the pain you gave - Joyce Guo
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. - Jim Valvano
It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want. - Shannon L. Alder
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor is the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge
The power others have to upset us and to steer us off our path is the power we gave to them. - Joy Maitland
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises. - Donna Lynn Hope
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. - John Lennon
God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you? - William Arthur Ward
These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.These were the friends who gave me my life. - R.A. Salvatore
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead. - David Eddings
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions. - Arthur Schopenhauer
God gave men a heart but he gave certain hearts to other men. - Robert Kodingo
Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life. - Anya vonderLuft
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. - Dorothy Parker
Music not only saved my life, it gave me a life - Nick Carter
If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on individual aggrandizement - Sunday Adelaja
At the age of my play this country gave me a stone on my head. - Tanmaya Guru
متى استعبدتم الناس وقد ولدتهم أمهاتهم أحرارا When did you start enslaving people, when their mothers gave birth to them free? - Umar ibn Al-Khattab
Yes. This. It was just what she needed, because here, held by him like this, her guilt, her regret, her fears . . . all of it gave way to this heady, languid sensation of being desired and she didn’t want it to stop.Any of it. - Jill Shalvis
I was about to die; and then she gave me a birth again - Wrushank Sorte
He never gave up. And he does that for us - Steven Spielberg
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun. - Kahlil Gibran
Value a day only by the love that you gave away. - Debasish Mridha
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. - J.M. Barrie
In Jesus the full meaning of peace is revealed: he gave peace, made peace and is our peace (Jn. 14:27; Eph. 2:14f.). - Gordon J. Wenham
He stared at her. How is it that you’re cute, sexy as hell, and smarter than anyone I know?She gave him a small smile. It’s a gift. - Jill Shalvis
It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one national flower in book publishing, it is the martini. - Al Silverman
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. - J.I. Packer
These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it. - Niccolò Machiavelli
The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know. - Rebecca Beard
I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got. - Neil Diamond
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for. - Cassandra Clare
At the time of departure from this beautiful world, you will able to take only one asset with you, and that is the love you gave away and the love you have received. - Debasish Mridha
I Still Have Everything You Gave MeIt is dusty on the edges.It is slightly rotten.I guard it without thinking.I focus on it once a yearwhen I shake it out in the wind.I do not ache.I would not trade. - Naomi Shihab Nye
The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights) - Elaine Kagan
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. - Erma Bombeck
Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that’s different; it makes it worthwhile then. - Alan Marshall
For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son [Stalin], so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. - Austin 3:16
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know. - Rebecca Beard
I don't like the darkness but I want to live in it, I don't want to have pains but I always have it, I want to live in good way, happy and very normal life but I just can't. Because it's not that thing which some one gave me and I didn't took from anybody or anything that's just my destiny. - Shayne Azad
Mozart liked to write letters while on the loo. He wrote, "I think it only fitting to write while shitting." This gave me the idea of, "I think it only fitting to read while ..." Who says men can't multitask? - Peter Rogers
I wrote relationship spelling as "realationship" when I was in 5th class. But English teacher smiled and gave me marks. - Rakesh Vemulawada
people leave you only when you gave them a chance to leave you and people fall in love only when they give a chance to fall in love - laila shah
When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere. - Michael Bassey Johnson
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you got better. He would have given everything for that. Everything. Nothing else mattered. - S.J. Watson
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. - George Best
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about. - Søren Kierkegaard
What a funny old world, Thinking they could cage her, & make her fear her future; Apprently they didn't know her well enough, The cage, gave her wings to fly. - Nikki Rowe
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. - Henry James
I gave her love she gave me words to write - RazaZaidi
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle
Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light. - Emily Dickinson
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. - Unknown
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? - William Arthur Ward
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you. - Shannon L. Alder
Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear. - Tupac Shakur
was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means. Charles Lapworth - Darwin
Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on. - Shannon L. Alder
A long time ago, I gave up trying to understand how other people think. - Dr Margaret Aranda
The skin of her face,parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain,with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile. - Anna Jae
God gave me the life and created the world to know what it is actually. - Rahul Bodkhe
You’re forgetting… we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I’m thinking he’s expecting one this year as well. - Carol - Matthew Leeth
He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?""No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore. - Hilary McKay
The table next to the sink is for flashcards. I saw a Monty Python skit called, "every sperm is sacred," and it gave me the idea that, "every piss is sacred." Meaning, WHY NOT LOOK AT FLASHCARDS WHILE VOIDING? - Peter Rogers
God gave you brain so that you can give him rest. - Wheto Joseph Seyon
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