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“Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know”

Knows Given Cities Imagine Plans Program Why Not Soviet Representatives Rockets Disneyland Pads Launching

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.”

“Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.”

Knows Want Book Hard Given Reader Offers Importance Dollars Average Creator Tiny Despite Comic Corporate Shops Abandoned Comic Book Selection Scope Fractions Book Readers

Author:Scott McCloud

“To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.”

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.”

Knows Doe Body Running Opportunity Given Sides Water My Own Know How Down And Golf Ice Score Veins Temperature Choke Boiling Splinters Body Temperature Ice Water Boiling Point

Author:John Updike

“The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children; but at any rate they filled the Temple, and how many there were who could not get into the Temple I cannot say. This is the account given by Isaiah, whether he told the truth or not I leave every body to judge for himself.”

Knows Children Body Given Lord Wife Judging Walking Accounts Filled Train Rate Scripture Temples Polygamy

Author:Brigham Young

“I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.”

Knows Given Bits Damn Bizarre

Author:Katherine Waterston

“It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Looks I Can Important Ideas Sometimes Feelings Might Given Cutting Scene Directors Instinct Good Ideas

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“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

“To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.”

Knows Sometimes Seems Given Easy Know How Information Jokes Structure Narrative Working It Dose Tempo

Author:David Salle

“...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.”

Knows Care Given Lines Liberty Rights Politician Draws Sand Tolerate Bureaucrats Encroachment Lines In The Sand

Author:Walter E. Williams

“I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Different Whole Might Given Lines Mom Shapes Draws Daughter Trust Me Dots You Think You Know

Author:Laura Lee

“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.”

“I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.”

Ifs Knows Might Care Given Mom Birth Available Survived Ethiopia

Author:Liya Kebede

“There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.”

Knows House Given Fine Horse Witness Vanity Laughed Purchasers

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

“The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.”

Knows Men Use Given Animal Faculty Betray Cunning Blunders

Book:The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes

Source: The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes

“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.”

Source: A Pocket Full of Pebbles

“I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.”

Knows Hard Given Natural Screens Menace Scorsese

Author:Hugh Grant

“... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.”

Knows Way Mean Helping Given Hell Havens Ready Wall Monsters Hopeful Given Up Not Ready

Author:Betty Rollin

“I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.”

Thinking Knows Writing Children Book Used Given

Author:Danielle Steel

“I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.”

Knows Writing Given Aspiration Accommodate

Author:George Saunders

“A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.”

Knows Years Doe Real Today Given Capitalist

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.”

People Knows World Want Believe Art Book Matter America Form Given I Believe Watches Jazz Comic Comic Book Embarrassed

Author:CM Punk

“Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.”

Knows Years Firsts Play Given Enjoy Careers Advice Years Ago Best Advice Maradona

Author:Lionel Messi

“Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.”

Knows Given Esteem

Author:Jules Michelet

“Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.”

Knows Soul Action Given Voice Emotion Existence Study Determine Thee Contemplation Destination Not Alone Thyself Piety Brooding

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.”

Knows Writing Moments Given Felt Forget Moved Wheels Passages Distraction Scholar Organs Pipe Lapses Disregarded Herons Pipe Organs

Author:Lucio Russo

“Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.”

Knows Needs Believe Long Enough Shows Action Courses Given Levels Situation Confidence Quiet Standing Tradition Buddhist Stillness

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.”

Knows World Want I Can Book Beautiful Given Loss Grief Journey Findings Pages Performances Generous Again And Again Fabulous Packages Emily

Author:Dorothea Lasky

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

People Knows Way Art Feelings Literature Given Sex Loneliness Connected Isolation Relief

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.”

“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.”

“Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line. ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave -- you may be given the opportunity.”

Knows Believe May Opportunity Given Lines Know How Evidence Raises Assuming Bottom Don't Believe Budgets Boss Bottom Line Files Collecting No Money Negotiating

Author:Pat Heim

“Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.”

Knows Giving Writing Given Teach Teacher Subjects Messages Subliminal Subliminal Messages

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.”

Knows Needs Kind Different Young Asks Given Advice Musician Letters Instruments Different Kinds Alphabet Different Kinds Of Music Letters Of The Alphabet

Author:David Lee Roth

“For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.”

Knows Men Littles Made Soul Might Individual Given Force Ability Creative Influence Angel Breaths Creator Companion Approval Stamps

Author:Edgar Cayce

“I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Years Facts Jobs Law Three Given Stuff Four Coaches Four Years Good Job Recognise Unspoken Good Coaches

Author:Daley Thompson

“I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.”

Knows Giving Play Given Wish Talent Cricket

Author:Rahul Dravid

“Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person.”

People Knows Want Persons Certain Given Type

Author:Danny Brown

“I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!”

People Knows Has Beens Sometimes Names Given Rocks Tough Drag Rock And Roll

Author:Paul Stanley

“Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.”

People Ifs Knows Country Language Given Chance Half Land Willing Population Uncertainty Abandon Peru Foreign Lands

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.”

Thinking Knows Want Love Wells Heart Care Dies Given Failing Casts Truth And Love Cast Away

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body.”

Knows Men Soul Body Given Mines Revitalization

Author:Walter Russell

“I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?”

Knows Persons Doe Two Earth Turns Given Can Do Months Doctors Hey Relationship With God Two Months Hey You Shattering

Author:Si Robertson

“Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.”

People Knows Shows Given

Author:Dan Harmon

“The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.”

Knows May Important Enough Happens Given Sides Growth Steps Events Capacity Regard Categories Enough Time Reproduction Improbable Origin Of Life

Author:George Wald

“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

“i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Given Fine Prove Evidence Negative Prove It If There Is A God

Author:Ayn Rand

“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”

Ifs Knows Way Matter Would Be Three Given Wish Influence Policy Exercise One Day Spokes Three Wishes

Book:Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays

Source: Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays