Gifts are given, but fruit must be grown
From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.
I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.
My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.
France has given us the best filmmakers and food.
Anything that you have is seed that God has given you.
Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.
Freedom is not given - it is taken.
And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?
"Consent must be freely given, can be withdrawn at any time, and the absence of 'no' does not mean 'yes. '" How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it?
I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?
Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.