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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh

Lonely, Friend, Place

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller

Pain, Mind, Him

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Wanted, Write

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Equality, Heart

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore de Balzac

Passion, Youth, Idiots

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth

Deep, Lie, Thoughts

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
Pedro Martinez

Health, God, Everything

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

Experience, Study, Themselves

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel

Time, Attention, Public

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
Marilyn vos Savant

Work, Live, Ability

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley

Nature, Nothing, Down

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
Kaiser Wilhelm

Woman, Beer, Conquer

Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace

Short, Advice, Whatever

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
Mary J. Blige

Music, Power, Strength

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Live

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac

Life, Great, Hope

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

Best, Children, Find

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
Kent Nerburn

Love, Time, Cannot

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Selfish, Rather

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin

Possible, Stage, Capitalism

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John Ruskin

Nothing, Thought, Unless

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

Best, Long, Book

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
Francis of Assisi

Him, Against, Conscience

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Life, Faith, God

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson

Life, Love, Respond

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Enough, Blood, Sons

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.
Michelle Obama

School, Parents, Choice

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Philips

Free, Away, Used

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
Jesus Christ

God, Before, Shall

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
Dwight L. Moody

Says, Fifty, Dabble

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