How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson Mizner

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Soren Kierkegaard

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
Bette Davis

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Vincent Van Gogh

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Robert Collier