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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

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.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Never, never, never give up.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

Give light and people will find the way.

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.

The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.