#give

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#cheek #cloak #give #go #injustice

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#any #bring #bush #bush administration #comprehensive

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#bit #cello #give #guitar #i

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#completely #given #guitar #guitar players #had

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#construction #damn #fast #give #i

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. ↗

— Martha Beck

#certain #constantly #eclectic #exactly #feel

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years. ↗

— Paula Deen

#bed #calculate #calories #consuming #did

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#being #credit #gives #lot #people