“Now, the whole world hears Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last, Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,-- That promise faithful:--"Fear not, little flock! It is your Father's will and joy, to give To you, the Kingdom"!” MenWorldGivingLittlesWholeLastsJoyFatherChristianityDoubtFailingPromiseWhole WorldKingdomsFaithfulDelayFlocksFear Not Author:Matthew Arnold
“Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!” GivingLastsFightingCourageGiving UpDignityLipsShipsYieldNever Giving UpStiff Upper Lip Book:Ballads for Little Folk Source: Ballads for Little Folk
“If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover.” IfsWantGivingLongHardBodyLastsCausesTrainEverydayYour BodyDestroyedHammersTrain Hard Author:Ronnie Coleman
“The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.” GivingHumansLittlesCharacterCareLastsMinutesAnxietyHighestExperienceInfiniteInvisiblePettyHuman ExperiencePolishPowder Author:William Matthews
“One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.” NeedsGivingEndsEnoughPainLastsWorryHonestFellowsBraveBoundsBeing HonestBe BraveDiscretionRefrainThose We Love Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.” WorldGivingWellsHeartEnoughLastsSpiritFeltEducationPovertyBloodYouthCollegeBrokenWallArmsHighestPaidHungerDisappointmentFedsSweatCentsCrushedCleanlinessLaundryFeesGive And TakeTuitionWell DressedFrigidUnderpaid Author:Anzia Yezierska
“If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.” IfsGivingChildrenLastsPartyMinutesMessagesBotherHostBullshitExplainingLast Minute Author:Amy Sedaris
“where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.” GivingTryingBookPainLastsSpeakBlackWhitePleasureSilentBlack And WhiteReversePain And Pleasure Book:The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal Source: The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal
“Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.” IfsNeedsGivingMomentsLastsFormCuttingGiving UpPhotographyPreciseRight TimeGreat Photography Author:Augusto De Luca
“I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.” WantGivingReasonWantedLastsCareersAudienceMinutesUniqueNo ReasonCopies Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.” ThinkingGivingChildrenSchoolLastsLawPracticeCenturyInvolvedReactionsRebellionContemptAfghanistanMultipleAutonomyScornBridesEmancipationAbolishAfghan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.” WantGivingSometimesLastsFunHoursPleasureDealsReaderImpressionFascinatingDevotional Author:Frederick Buechner