"People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair."
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"I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it."
"she had given me a piece of what made her life sane."
"Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered."
"Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where."
"Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education."
"If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?"
"Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good version of someone else."
"I continue to steward what God has given for me for such a time as this."
"You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have"
"I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end."
"Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop."
"You have so many capabilities & potential. Start celebrating the life God has given you!"
"Equality is never given, it is taken."
"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."
"She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart."
"Most people are doing the best they can, given what they know and understand, including you. If they knew more and were aware of more, they would do things differently."
"What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life ."