Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "B" » be given
«Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| Keywords:
be given, blazed, blazes, cooperation, credit, developments, discoveries, due, due to, improvements, invariably, involve, subsequent, trail, trailing, trails
«Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.»
«If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.»
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
answer, answers, at present, be given, books, Books not, distant, experiencing, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, given, give notice, gradually, language, letters, locked, locking, lock in, lock up, look for, noticing, Not now, patience, perhaps, poet, question, questions, remains, rooms, The Question, unsolved, written, written language
«In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge»
Author: Robert Bork
| About:
Democracy,
Law and lawyers,
Morality
| Keywords:
be given, constitutional, framer, Framers, legislator
«Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
be given, free as
«For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.»
«Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over...»
«If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering (James 1:5-6).»
«Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
