Gived Quotes & Sayings

That evening, after Romer had left so peremptorily, she had gone through to the salon to talk to her father. A job for the British government, she told him. £500 a year, a British passport. He feigned surprise but it was obvious that Romer had briefed him to a certain extent.
'You'd be a British citizen, with a passport,' her father said, his features incredulous, almost abjectly so - as if it were unthinkable that a nonentity such as he should have a daughter who was a British citizen. 'Do you know what I would give to be a British citizen?' he said, all the while with his left hand miming a sawing motion at his right elbow. — William Boyd

You always have to stimulate the senses. — Henrik Fisker

rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work. — Booker T. Washington

It's critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel ... that we know what is true, no matter what we see. — Beth Moore

The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English. — Paul Clitheroe

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love. — Elizabeth George

Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind. — Salvador Dali

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you. — James McBride

He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot. — Evagrius Ponticus

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague. — Eula Biss

Enabling is the enemy of motivation. — Dave Ramsey

My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. — Ernest J. Gaines

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. — Orison Swett Marden