(1819 quotes found)
“Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. . . .”
Charles Dickens
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.”
S. I. Hayakawa
“Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”
Bible
“We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.”
Gary Oldman
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].”
“Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness.”
Dalai Lama
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better”
William Shakespeare
“The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.”
William Osler
“Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil”
Charles Simmons
