#given

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#given #god #perceiving #reveal #secretly

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world. ↗

— Evo Morales

#degrees #four #given #imagine #increase

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ↗

— Hannah More

#anger #cost #economy #expense #hatred

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#baffling #because #ever #forgiven #i

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#boards #companies #constituents #data #defend

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#convictions #enjoys #estate #first #fourteenth

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#give #given #i #lecture #lectures

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#given #her #irresponsible #life #love

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

#given #moment #people #slavery #slaves