Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.
I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.
One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.
Never give a sucker an even break.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.
Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.
I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Although I never wanted Theresa May to be our Prime Minister, I had been prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt.
I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
There's no timeline from ACLs. People give you five, six, seven, eight months to come back.
You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publish it.
I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.
