I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.
I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
I have a reward-and-punishment system: If I have done this much work, then I can play video games this long. It gives my day structure.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.
Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
