The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade.
I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever. . . It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.
It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
God asks little, but He gives much.
Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.
Height gives you the initiative.