I love America. America gave me wings.
I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.
You’re kind of a psycho. I get that. ” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now. ” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist. ” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.
It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.
And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot. . . that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.
If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.
That Jesus’ followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact. What the reality was that gave rise to the experiences I do not know.
I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.