Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.
There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.
I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.
Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.
Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.
All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.
I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.
God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.
Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good version of someone else.
My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I'm the most successful because I've been given opportunities that they never had.
It's a totally new mindset - I'm completely dedicated to living a new, healthy lifestyle. It's given me a whole new view on life.
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.
A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.
I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.