#afforded

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#be grateful #been #course #grateful #how

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. ↗

— Simone Weil

#art #fault #friendship #gratuitous #great

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#best #camera #comfortable #creek #dawson

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#admiring #afforded #allow #also #beauty

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. ↗

— James McGreevey

#civil #equal #equal protection #institution #less

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#because #big #big break #break #cambridge

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#days #different #had #i #olympics

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#attain #could #i #idealism #kind

If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#afforded #being #i #kind #life

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them. ↗

— Brad Thor

#afforded #al #conventions #geneva #in my opinion