It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict. . . It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.
As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition. . . . . IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast. ' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit
What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.
To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.
Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.
Do what gives you a buzz.
I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.
There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.
As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.