
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
Lyrics
The Dark Of The Sun, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
Lyrics
Source: His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
“Give me a place to stand, and I will include the world.”
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"Quotes", Notebooks
"Slapstick"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
“Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
δῶς[No omega+perispomene doric form per e.g. LSJ, March 2017] μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω.
Dôs moi pâ stô, kaì tàn gân kinásō.
Said to be his assertion in demonstrating the principle of the lever; as quoted by Pappus of Alexandria, Synagoge, Book VIII, c. AD 340; also found in Chiliades (12th century) by John Tzetzes, II.130 http://books.google.com/books?id=dG0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA46. This and "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world" are the most commonly quoted translations.
Variant translations:
Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.
This variant derives from an earlier source than Pappus: The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus, Fragments of Book XXVI http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/26*.html, as translated by F. R. Walton, in Loeb Classical Library (1957) Vol. XI. In Doric Greek this may have originally been Πᾷ βῶ, καὶ χαριστίωνι τὰν γᾶν κινήσω πᾶσαν [Pā bō, kai kharistiōni tan gān kinēsō [variant kinasō] pāsan].
Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world.
Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
To Joseph Stalin. Quoted in "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" - Page 164 - by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank - History - 2007
“Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
“Awkwardness gives me great comfort.”
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