(1819 quotes found)
“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.”
Cesar Chavez
“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”
Hammurabi
“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”
Wendell Phillips
“Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes”
David Hume
“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. (Revelations 8:3)”
Bible
“I was also given more unusual things to do - like I become a cat in one scene! I loved that, because I have two cats at home.”
Emma Watson
“And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, / And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.”
“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.”
Katherine Anne Porter
“The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.”
Maggie Kuhn
