All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person.
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.
Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
At any given time, there are ideas and images that can only be communicated indirectly.
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.
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.
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance
All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.
If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.
Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.