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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller

Hope, Fear, Why

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.
Sue Wicks

Good, Game, Win

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
Hillary Clinton

Down, Fall, Speech

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Anton Chekhov

Husband, Wife, Moon

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson

Life, Living, Makes

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Yourself, Receive

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Good, Bad

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Advice, Anyone, Turn

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle

Thought, After, Place

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud

God, Him, Become

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides

Him, Fish, Teach

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk

Coping, Mechanism, Rampant

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

Working, Themselves, Social

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams

Tired, Saying, Baseball

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Oscar Hammerstein II

Love, Heart, Put

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

Love, Stress, Fails

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell

Able, Might, Meaning

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
Marco Rubio

Hope, Help, Leaving

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge

Time, Best, Done

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine

Lord, Oh, Chastity

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
Rachel Corrie

Dreams, Yourself, Follow

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge, Ignorance, Small

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Person, Skin

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli

Time, Career, May

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
Abdul Kalam

Generation, Economic, Prosperity

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

True, End, Sense

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
John Barrymore

Morning, Find, Three

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Morning, Saying, Writing

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