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I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.
If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.
I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.
A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.
Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.
So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.
Friends give us the change to lift the blinds on our hearts to open up and show what we generally keep hidden from the rest of world.
I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.
Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?
It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.
Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.
I got a lot of heart. I am going to give it my all every day. I have no excuses. I come prepared every day. I put it in the hard work.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy.
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.
The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.
Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.