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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science
But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.
I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.
Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.
The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.
So what's your second suggestion?" "Tread lightly." "That's it? That's the best advice you can give me?" "All right, tread very lightly.
Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.
We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.
O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.
You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.
Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.
Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
I do work incredibly hard. I eat, sleep, and breathe pro wrestling with all of my heart, and I'm always committed to giving this my all.
Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.
Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.
I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.