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“I love comedy. God has given me this platform.”

Given Comedy Platforms

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.”

Knows Writing Years Mean Book Courses Given Six Aspiration Take Me Accommodate

Author:George Saunders

“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”

Trying Mind Hard Moments Seems Courses Given Goal Consciousness Strange Goes On Accounts Worthy Tiny Truthful Representation Instantaneous

Author:George Saunders

“Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.”

Men Doe Given Pieces Fronts Kings Checks Queens Cautious Be Cautious

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.”

Should Believe Has Beens Important Dream Today Given Born Growing Up Growing Advantage Important Things Don't Believe Guides Priorities Elites American Dream Reserved

Author:Ken Salazar

“Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.”

Ifs Knows Way Bigs Running Lost Given President Republican Losing Accounts Romney Mccain Tidy Offshore

Author:George Will

“[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.”

Years Facts Political Culture Given Ability Republican Evidence Structure Decay Moderates Romney Massachusetts Ability To Change

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.”

Two Values Given Objects Relation Quantity Precise

Book:An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

Source: An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

“The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.”

Given Deals Novel Concern Psychological Relevant Thematic

Author:Norman Spinrad

“Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.”

People Facts Choices Given Interesting Worldview Toss

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.”

Want Needs Two Ideas Artist Given Half Type Lucky Come Up Treatment I Want You Other Half

Author:Steve Sabol

“Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.”

Way Facts Jesus Given Salvation Closest Agape

Author:Pope Francis

“It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.”

Seems Might Given Profession Likes Paradoxical Limelight

Author:Audrey Tautou

“You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.”

Opportunity Given

Author:Charlize Theron

“Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.”

Ifs Men Different Given Chance White Organization Favors Wounds Indian Severe White Man

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

Jobs Past Given Effort Worry Support Performances Crisis Oil Reasonable Executives Afghanistan Spills Oil Spill

Author:Jim Talent

“The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.”

Given Wish Brain Easier Waste Appreciate I've Learned Wasting Time Things I've Learned

Author:Laini Taylor

“I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.”

Mother Given Adore Greatest Gifts Being A Mother

Author:Uma Thurman

“I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.”

Done Kids Film Young Father Given Black Careers Watches Havens Son Type Concepts Partnership Superhero Father Son Father And Son

Author:Blair Underwood

“Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.”

Problem Given Approach Mirrors Democratic Busy Congress Yesterday Allies Pace Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy Rearview Mirror Rear View Rear View Mirror

Author:Fred Upton

“I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.”

Thinking Given Tree Hills Just Being Tree Hill

Author:Kate Voegele

“Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.”

World Given Students Amount Program Fund Grants Awards Emphasis Funding Tuition Pell Grants

Author:Charles M. Vest

“I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.”

Ifs Guy Given Given Up Right Guy

Author:Emily VanCamp

“My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.”

Two Play Jobs Father Given Four Air Feet Months Lows All Time Blonde Full Time Jobs All Time Low

Author:Jack Wagner

“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.”

Long Important Moments Political Given Careers Modern Fronts Lucky Journalism Seats Political Life Long Careers Important Moments

Author:Judy Woodruff

“You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.”

Ifs Knows Needs Asks Given Talking Scene I've Learned Referring

Author:Sonya Walger

“Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.”

Bigs Given Makers Vaccines Blockbuster Money Maker

Author:Paul A. Offit

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind I Can Play Feelings Would Be Given Identity Football Bed Desperate American Football

Author:Keith Millard

“At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.”

Children Use Given Teacher Teaching Objects Active Agents Instruction Principal Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Maria Montessori

“We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.”

Ifs Inspirational Certain Given Challenges Sleep Race Alive Buddhism Periods Wake Up Lifetime Competing Going To Sleep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.”

Different Sometimes Names Energy Given Force Nice Buddhism Divides Different Names Prana Shakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.”

Ifs Home Given Social Gone Son Bed Sandwiches Prodigals Prodigal Son

Author:Vance Havner

“Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”

Self Matter Given Simple Love Is Absence Void Selfless Unrequited Love Invited Unrequited Repercussions Horrific Fill The Void

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.”

Men Way Writing Given Vision Pieces Masters Paper Blind Silent Hearing Exceptional Deaf Blind Man Silent Man

Author:Criss Jami

“The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.”

Knows Made Government America Father Opportunity Given Like You Citizens Ordinary Extraordinary Like Me Made It Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things Ordinary Citizens

Author:Mia Love

“Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.”

Given Century Events Israel Inevitable 20th Century 19th Century Zionism

Author:Mike Leigh

“I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.”

People Writing Wells Art Artist Given Talent Elements Responsible Performing Craftsman Spiritualism Writing Well Performing Well

Author:Al Franken

“Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.”

Knows Giving Given Information Couple Hero Speech Give Me Occasions Corporations Good Information

Author:Al Franken

“Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.”

Ifs Opportunity Given Fans Treats

Author:Zachary Levi

“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.”

“Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.”

People Ifs Jobs Next Given Decision Embrace Unhappy Instance Controversy

Author:Gina McCarthy

“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.”

Feels Littles Persons Made I Can Enough Play Character Guy Opportunity Given Bits Acting Boys Little Bit Good Enough Bad Guys Good Person Posters

Author:Gucci Mane

“I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.”

Thinking Should Ideas Actors Given Leader Offers Direct Productions Good Actors

Author:Joe Mantello

“I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!”

People Ifs Made Hate Given Pieces I Hate Grandmother Furniture

Author:Peter Mullan

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

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Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.”

Men Life Persons Matter Moments Given Hours Meaning Of Life What Matters Day To Day Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning Stimulus And Response

Book:Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.”

Knows Heart Mother Given Christ Wonderful Example Catholic Genuine God Love Teresa

Author:Bill McCartney