“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”
Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light
Source: A Northern Light
Source: Winter's Bone
“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”
Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light
Source: A Northern Light
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, here Woland addresses Margarita
The Master and Margarita (1967)
“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Keep a Quiet Heart
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (2000), "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1305.PDF (EWD 1305). <br class="br">2000s
“Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.”
Norman Mailer book An American Dream
Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 1
An American Dream (1965)
“Never offer advice but where there is some probability ef its being followed.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 120
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Speech at AIPAC Policy Conference (4 June 2008) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91150432&ft=1&f=1102 <br class="br">2008
“An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)