#given

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#believe #down #drum #given #go

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#being #former #given #hand #latter

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#enjoyed #given #got #life #no doubt

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#between #broken #cannot #does #down

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#army #chance #entire #given #negative

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#choice #choose #doubt #else #everyone

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#behind #central #enough #fight #given

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#grateful #i #life #me #tennis

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#appreciation #audience #back #comprehend #could