#given

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#given #kingdom #woman #dreams

You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude. ↗

— Clive Barker

#clive #imajica #john-furie-zackariah #forgiveness

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us. ↗

— Horatius Bonar

#forgiveness #forgiveness

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ↗

— Josh Billings

#forgiven #laughed #lord #man #sins

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay. ↗

— Evan Davis

#although #anything #bbc #because #being

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

#baggage #behavioural #beings #brain #bring

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#economic #economic activity #given #jobs #level

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. ↗

— Martha Beck

#certain #constantly #eclectic #exactly #feel

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given. ↗

— Dennis C. Blair

#approved #carried #decisions #defend #fault

The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#given #lot #me #taught