G Quotes
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“Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.”
“Give, but give until it hurts.”
“Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.”
“Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?”
Source: A Passage to India
“Give, expecting nothing there of.”
“Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”
“Give, give, give, give… Ask.”
“Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?”
“Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.”
“Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.”
“Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven.”
“Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.”
“Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil.”
“Given [Donald] Trump's surprising recent election as president of the United States, his fate and that of the Bomb are about to become seriously and dangerously intertwined with the fate of all humanity.”
“Given [Donald] Trump`s polling deficit, his reluctance for ads until very recently in his near total lack of any ground game to speak off, it came as a surprise today that according to The Washington Post, Trump has stopped holding high-dollar fund-raising events, relying almost exclusively on online donations, which, of course, tend to be much smaller.”
“Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.”
“Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.”
“Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.”
“Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.”
“Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.”
“Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.”
Source: Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects.”
Source: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
“Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.”
“Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.”
“Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness.”
“Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.”
Source: Dissonance
“Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.”
“Given a choice,' says Greenglass, 'I'd prefer to die thin.' 'Why? So it'll be easier on your pallbearers? … They got great rice pudding here.”
Source: St. Farb's day
“Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.”
“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.”
“Given a good time in bed, women turn blind to the faults of their men.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.”
“Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.”
Source: The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons
“Given a mechanical civilisation the process of invention and improvement will always continue, but the tendency of capitalism is to slow it down, because under capitalism any invention that does not promise fairly immediate profits are suppressed”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.”
Source: Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling
“Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.”
“Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is often determined by the structure of the system, the situation. There are requirements, structurally determined; there are possible in pure cases unambiguous decisions as to which completion does justice to the situation, which does not, which violates the requirements and the situation.”
“Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Given a test question, every wrong answer you eliminate from options A - E increases your chances of getting the right answer by 20percent.
The more you identify what you should not be doing, the closer you get to the things you should do.”
Source: The Soldier Within
“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”
“Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out.”
“Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?”
“Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.”
“Given all the forces arrayed against it, no wonder Kant thought growing up to be more a matter of courage than knowledge: all the information in the world is no substitute for the guts to use your own judgement. And judgement can be learned — principally through the experience of watching others use it well —but it cannot be taught.”
Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
“Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.”
“Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?”
“Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.”