Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
Benjamin Spock

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.
Hayden Fry

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
Erich Maria Remarque

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
Richard Gere

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
Little Richard

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
Amy Tan

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
Charlize Theron

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
Hedy Lamarr

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt

I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.
Michael Irvin

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
Pierre de Coubertin

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
Murray Gell-Mann

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Emile Durkheim

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
Ramsey Clark

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
Marilyn Hacker

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.
Michael Landon