#given

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#individual #only #soul

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. ↗

— Ilya Ehrenburg

#character development #development #education #given #knowledge

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#faced #given #i #most #over

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#book #emotional #feel #given #i

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#casting #casting directors #chance #come #decided

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. ↗

— Lucretius

#life #none

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #cannot #choose #close #concrete

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#badly #biggest #both #changes #done

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #book #characteristic #energy #force