#give

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#epic #family #give #his #i

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ↗

— Euripides

#err #forgive #men #must #needs

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived. ↗

— John Bracken

#any #day #different #give #here

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#embarrassing #get #gives #horrible #humor

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. ↗

— Dale Evans

#action #child #every #every time #give

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. ↗

— Dame Edith Evans

#give #i #theatre #want

All of my writing is God-given. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#acting #battle #circumstances #decision #everyday

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#being #being funny #find #funny #give