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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver

Good, Waiting, Him

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman

Truth, Thought, Hell

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
Clint Eastwood

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.
Clint Eastwood

Life, Important, Through

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
Clint Eastwood

Crazy, Thinking, Give

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Success, Took, Excuse

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
Carroll O'Connor

Good, Run, Directors

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
Mike Tyson

Respect, Fact, Laid

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett

Women, God, Brain

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow

Away, Ocean, Land

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Lewis Carroll

Good, Advice, She

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge

Person, Honor, Reward

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James

Life, Experience, Reflection

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano

Trust, Bad, Thinking

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman

Become, Wanted, Once

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes

Christmas, Die, Knew

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford

God, Friends, Relatives

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
Loretta Young

Faith, God, Courage

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
Whitney Houston

God, Voice, Sing

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius

God, Friends, Siblings

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Ann Landers

Success, Two, Lord

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Colin Powell

Life, Government, Terrible

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
Gordie Howe

Peace, Yourself, Mind

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth

Good, Home, Bad

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Love, Real

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot

Beauty, Men, Experience

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

Read, Reading, Drinking

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
Jose Mourinho

Respect, Winning, Football

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

Birthday, Mom, Dad

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman

Children, Put, Away

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