#gives

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#band #beads #gives #i #like

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#conformists #democracy #dissidents #freedom #gives

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. ↗

— Eric Holder

#attempt #bomb #breadth #bring #challenges

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#heart #hug #i #live #someone

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. ↗

— Hildegard Knef

#failure #gives #greatly #lot #more

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#nobel #nobel prize #opportunity #prize #public

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#gives #him #i #i wish #interested

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence. ↗

— Charles Dance

#confidence #gives #i #more #playing