“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.” TwoUsedLostGivenDifficultPovertyMinesResearchDevotionEnthusiasmPensFountainPencilsProvokedNickelsFountain PensBallpoint Pens Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.” FeelsKindMadeBookHandsGivenFeltChanceNumbersMinesWeaponsCriticsSizeReputationSatNew BooksRectifyGiven A ChanceBring Me Down Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike
“If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.” IfsBookMovingGivenFrontsMinesBookstoresProminence Author:Maeve Binchy
“A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.” TryingSaidShowsOpportunityGivenChallengesMinesShow BusinessFlip Author:Steve Martin
“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.” KnowsMenSoulBodyGivenMinesRevitalization Author:Walter Russell
“Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.” WorldWayStoriesYoungMotherOpportunityGivenSacrificeMinesPerseveranceDamnYoung WomenTeenageTrue StoryResiliencySingle Mother Author:Wendy Davis
“I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.” KnowsMightGivenKindnessKnow HowMinesBirthCharityCrueltyLove And Kindness Author:Clarence Darrow
“Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.” PassionGivenNaturalDoorsMinesSingingTrue Passion Author:V. Bozeman
“I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.” BookMightGivenMinesWorriedGenreAmused Author:Margaret Atwood
“The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!” IfsGivenSkyMinesRobustBest Food Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul - yours and mine and everyone else's on the planet - incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short.” LongSoulUseBodyThreeGivenEmotionalMinesPlanetsAspectTemporaryPhysical BodyOversoul Author:Benjamin Creme
“Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this book a year before I even went to a meeting because I was already miserable. I didn't enjoy drinking anymore, I just couldn't stand the idea of not doing it. I was afraid if I got sober I wouldn't be able to write anymore. That was a really big fear of mine, which turned out not to be true.” IfsWritingYearsFirstsBookIdeasBigsAbleWantedGivenWishEnjoyMinesMeetingsDrinkingBeing TrueGet UpMiserableSoberSobriety Author:Bucky Sinister
“What am I doing with the gifts that have been given and the opportunities that are mine to make things better for others? I think it's always - success has to be beyond the person who is themselves working for personal success. It's also got to be helping someone else.” ThinkingPersonsHas BeensHelpingOpportunityGivenMinesPersonal SuccessHelping Someone Author:John C. Maxwell
“Earl Mills is probably the best role I've ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work with Halle [Berry] and Klaus Maria Brandauer, an Austrian actor who's a hero of mine. Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.” GivingFilmActorsGivenRolesMinesHeroShotsIntroducingMillsBerriesGreat ExperiencesAmazing Experiences Author:Brent Spiner
“It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.” AbleGivenMinesCrushedCriticise Author:John Malkovich
“It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.” BelievePainGivenI BelieveCausesCompanyHavensMinesNeverthelessDisputes Author:Howard Stern
“I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.” LawGivenFeltChristSinTakenMinesTrustSalvationSavedAssuranceChrist AloneAssurance Of Salvation Author:John Wesley
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.” WorldLongMatterHardPhilosophyValuesGivenStruggleMinesShapesHighestStandardsAbsolutesGiven UpObjectivism Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.” WorldTodayValuesGivenMinesTaughtDivineEternalSacredDancingSubstanceTimelessness Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel