#given

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#every #general #given #i #like

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#forgiven #only #sins #undone

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. ↗

— William Barclay

#away #compensation #find #given #less

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#advantage #assuming #becomes #begin #center

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ↗

— Idries Shah

#give #given #giving #really #take

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#capable #catastrophe #chance #clearly #courageously

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing

They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#logical #new #our #roosevelt #saved

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#directions #explain #given #how #instructions