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"Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader."
"Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them."
"The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other."
"The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love."
"I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health."
"Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing."
"One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God."
"Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense."
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
"It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it."
"The more you give to others, the more you get in return."
"Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should."
"When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives."
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own."
"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything."
"If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme."
"I have but one life to give to adventure."
"The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks."
"Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile"
"I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain."
