Given Quotes
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At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.
Nathan C. Schaeffer
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All you can take with you is that which you've given away.
George Bailey
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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
Rich Mullins
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What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
Tilda Swinton
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The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.
Rebecca Solnit
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Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
Montgomery Clift
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Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder.
Avis Bohlen
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IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
Darl McBride
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
Tim Ferriss
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I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.
Will Ferrell
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Courage always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."
Sandra Cisneros
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I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.
Hal Higdon
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These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.
David Daniels
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
Seneca the Younger
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Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored” for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.
Kiersten White
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What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.
Ryan Adams
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Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
Hayao Miyazaki
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We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is.
Katsura Hoshino
