You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.
And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
I want us to be. . . what is your word? Friends. " "Psychotic rapists don't have friends. " "I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered. " (Mac & V'lane)
When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.
When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.
Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.
It is not. . . That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.