#given

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#armed #bloodshed #contradiction #danger #dialogue

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#given #her #irresponsible #life #love

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#chief #defect #doing #given #more

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#arrogance #been #employ #forget #given

It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#already #come #established #fit #given

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

#given #moment #people #slavery #slaves

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#beautiful place #day #destroying #dump #enhance

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#careers #distinguished #fame #first #genius

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#function #given #interpretation #power #prevails