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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.