I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want. . . The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.
This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it
I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.
Give fools the first and women the last word.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.
Working people really amaze me. When you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.
The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.
No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.
She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm.
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.
You should never take more than you give
I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.