The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender. . . Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.
Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.
I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.
Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.
What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
Maybe it’s my own fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn’t. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line, and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash, and not fire. Maybe it’s my fault that you didn’t see that failure gave me strength; that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God given gift, and not something I worked for every single day of my life. Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe you’re just making excuses.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.
There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'. . a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner. . . but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?