#give

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#because #better #better ways #born #doing

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#another #editor #get #give #go

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give. ↗

— Franka Potente

#gift #give #our time #somebody #time

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#give #give me #i #me #most

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#both #date #give #never #number

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly. ↗

— Otto Rank

#give #reluctantly #shalt #thou

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#county #credit #decades #decide #financial

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#behind #decisions #elect #evidence #facts

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#allows #building #civil #civil society #does