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Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.
Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds!
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.
The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.
Life isn’t about waiting for the time to come. It’s all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you.
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.
At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.
When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I'll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me.
When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.
When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.
Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.
One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.
There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
There is no one way of photographing anything. I don't believe there is even one best way of photographing any given subject.
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best to do that.
God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.