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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Henry Miller

Future, Bad, Feeling

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant

Knowledge, Science, Wisdom

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
Marilyn Manson

Music, Art, Freedom

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

Door, Felt, Key

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

Life, Experience, Bald

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian

Nature, Best, Art

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford

God, Friends, Relatives

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

Success, Failure, Flavor

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland

God, Food, Bird

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Eric Hoffer

Someone, Giving, Sublime

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

Faith, Education, Respect

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen DeGeneres

God, Power, Mom

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid

Strength, Courage, Body

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid

Beautiful, Rest, Crop

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid

Health, Sometimes, Away

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Knowledge, Him

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles

Laughter, Children, Him

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
David Herbert Lawrence

Woman, Giving, Free

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana

Character, Live, Wife

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty, Joy, Whatever

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Byron

Woman, May, Find

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle

Her, Glory, Herself

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Glenn Turner

Rocking, Nowhere, Worrying

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon

Beauty, Nature, Women

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
William Cobbett

Women, Power, Sex

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. Salinger

Girl, She, Nobody

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh

Life, Future, Knowledge

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

Life, Once, Hand

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