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“And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.”

Believe Ends Moments God Next Given Lifetime Hopefully Believe In Us Next Lifetime

Author:Forest Whitaker

“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Law Order Lost Given Watches Audience Middle Crime Structure Episodes Longevity Starks Law And Order Centerpieces

Author:Danny Pino

“Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.”

Ifs Trying Ends Given New Things New Experiences

Author:Alli Simpson

“I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.”

Should Littles Persons Ends Kids Fighting House Given Parent Tree Should Have Foundation Inevitable Sunday Afternoon Sunday Afternoons

Book:The Round House: A Novel

Source: The Round House: A Novel

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Eye Earth Christian Given Heaven Christ Can Do Brother All Things Weak Lifts Elders End Of The World

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.”

Men Needs Ends Body Today Christian Purpose Jesus Given Nations Christ Church Lord Plans Jesus Christ Selfish Midst Devoted Given Up Lord Jesus Christ Magnifying Church Today

Author:Wilbur Moorehead Smith

“An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”

People Art Ends Sometimes Given Products Program Budgets Architect Schedules

Author:Frank Gehry

“Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.”

Should Doe Art Ends Artist Given Class Poverty Middle Becoming Comfortable Training Should Have Complaining Middle Class

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.”

Ifs World Ends Facts Literature Given Effects Method Democratic Our World Traffic Ecology End Times Galaxy Garbage Jam Greenhouses Velocity Untouchables Traffic Jam Garbage Disposal

Author:Jose Saramago

“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”

Thinking World Kind Doe Book Ends Reason Stories Bigs Care Guy Turns Girl Reading Given Novel Data Winner Plot Adultery

Author:Elif Batuman

“Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.”

Men Way May Art Ends Given Practice Creation Balance Achievement Harmony Contrary Surround Dominant Signals Fulfilment

Author:Piet Mondrian

“I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Kind Ends Enough Whole Together Artist Given Careers Know How Lucky Ensemble

Author:Frank Stella

“Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.”

Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau

“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.”

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.”

Giving Feels Mean Ends Facts Strong Given Taken Pride Connections Harder Worthy Very Strong Receiving Transactions Strong Connection

Author:Merle Shain

“Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.”

Mean Ends Values Given Relation Adaptation Prudence

Book:The Elements of Morality, Including Polity

Source: The Elements of Morality, Including Polity

“In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”

World Way Firsts Ends Seems Order Choices Given Enjoy Forget Liberty Our Lives Amount Valuable Spending Certainty Settling Obsessed Earning Unlimited Holding On Questionable Earning Money

Author:Rolf Potts

“It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.”

Ends Given Beginnings And Endings

Book:The Road to Understanding

Source: The Road to Understanding

“The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.”

Ends Past Given Acting The End Of The Day

Author:Ben Whishaw

“It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.”

Ifs Should Ends Play Government Given Easy Millions Terrible Drama Tough Pounds Terrible Things Coalitions Pubs

Author:Russell T Davies

“Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.”

Thinking Ends Shows Suffering Opportunity Given Audience Middle Beginning Middle And End

Author:Khandi Alexander

“Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?”

“Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.”

Ends Age Able Wanted Speak Given Careers Teacher Scholar I Am Pretty

Author:George Steiner

“It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.”

Knows World Want Years Ends Given Complaining Ritual Google Shallow Publish Summary Year End

Author:John Battelle

“A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.”

Ifs Men Said Two Ends Use Political Given Party Wise Policy Strange Program Election Fellows Campaigns Debate Political Parties Wise Man Once Said Gifts Of Life Jealously

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.”

Men Ends Purpose Energy Given Interest Community Powerful Class Particular Combination Concentration Efficiency Maintaining Aristocracy Powerful Man Energy Efficiency

Author:James F. Cooper

“A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.”

“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”

Writing War Ends Mother Courses Given Class Imagine Months Birth Skills Prepared Complexes Notion Nine Absurd Acquire Composition Naive Nine Months

Author:Mary Blakely

“It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.”

Humans Long Has Beens Soul Ends Body Given Poor Mass Ridiculous Globes Interfere Human Body Trifling Stingy

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.”

Should Important Ends Purpose Given Realizing Responsibility Creation Goes On Capacity Praise Environmental Caring Scripture End Times Stewardship Adoration

Author:Tony Campolo

“I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.”

Ifs Way Made Ends Done Enough Actors Given Deals Couple Independent Dollars Profit Scales

Author:Kevin Kline

“We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.”

People Looks Long Doe Ends Hard Kids America Remember Young Lying Certain Given Lines Worry Missing Havens Hard Work Models Sells Hypocrisy Telling The Truth Spells Cheese Dishonesty Discounts

Author:Iyanla Vanzant