The world doesn’t always give what you want, but it often gives you what you need.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more...

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Usually the science-fiction fan has some indication they’re a sci-fi fan and, therefore, a ‘Stargate’ fan. In other words, they could be wearing a rubber head or some kind of costume or just a T-shirt...

I like the fact that I’m involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.

If I see an orchid that’s fantastically expensive, I’ll buy it. It’s worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

Because you’ve done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

I’ve had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else’s frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else’s.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

You need to GIVE UP on methods that always give you wrong results… No matter how committed you are with a wrong formular, it always gives a wrong answer. Give up!

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

I’m not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

I don’t think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks – both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

I’m not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us the Poise to hold on. When we come across failure, He installs back...

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people’s hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was...

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be...

Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.