Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.