Quotes on Give Me

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.