Given Quotes - Page 34

• Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.

  Sally Gardner

  Heart, Ideas, Broken

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• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  Norman O. Brown

  Substance, Body, Self Destruction

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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• An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

  Russell Hoban

  God, Eye, Ideas

  Russell Hoban (2012). “Pilgermann”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Reading, Light, Darkness

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• All the Hardships. All the Mistakes. All the Rejections. All the Pain. All the times you Questioned why. All of these things have given Birth to the Wisdom and Strength that will Help you Shine your Light on the World, Even in the darkest of Hours.

  Judith Orloff

  Pain, Mistake, Light

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• The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.

  Tim Frick

  Single Mom, Accomplishment, Joy

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• The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

  Grant Cardone

  Ambitious, Given Up

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Apr 29, 2017

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• There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

  Komla Dumor

  Opportunity, Standards, Consistent

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• Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.

  Christopher Flavin

  Technology, Alternatives, Fuel

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• Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star filled skies and beside hearths, people have given thanks, and offered their blessings.

  John Robbins

  Stars, Humble, Blessing

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• The life I'm living
  is the life I'm given.

  David Bromberg

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• The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

  Larry Burkett

  Principles, Stewardship, Managers

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• At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Lying, Thinking, Foundation

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.78, A&C Black

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• A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

  Barbara Demick

  Heart, Simple, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta

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• I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what scientists have called the Mind of God. I believe that life and reproduction originate in a divine Source. Why do I believe this, given that I expounded and defended atheism for more than a half century? The short answer is this: this is the world picture, as I see it, that has emerged from modern science.

  Antony Flew

  Believe, Infinite Intelligence, Law

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• I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

  Sarah Polley

  Believe, World, Film

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• Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

  Robert Hofstadter

  Awards, Honor, Fields

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• The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

  Beatrice Wood

  Art, America, Bridges

  Beatrice Wood (1989). “Intimate Appeal: The Figurative Art of Beatrice Wood : The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 18 November 1989-18 February 1990, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, 19 June 1990-28 October 1990”

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• A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Blink Of An Eye, Chosen

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Ballet, Crafts, Grounding

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Great Men, Expecting

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• The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.

  Karyn White

  Mind, Lessons, Possibility

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• Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep,
  with the dog at your feet, his head resting
  on a shoe, and the clock's ticking
  like water dripping in a sink - I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact,
  given the inherent cruelty of the world
  where beautiful things and people
  are blasted apart all the day long,
  I would never want to come back, knowing
  I could never be this lucky twice.

  Bruce Dawe

  Beautiful, Dog, Sleep

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