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Best Quotes About Giving (Top 100)
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Henry Miller -
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Guy de Maupassant -
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein -
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
Shel Silverstein -
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank -
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus -
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand -
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn -
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen -
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann -
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain -
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
Maya Angelou -
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.
Philip K. Dick -
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran -
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London -
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran -
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
Marilynne Robinson -
Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
William Steig -
Don't spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything related to his feelings for you
Greg Behrendt -
Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam -
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael -
People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about
Lady Gaga -
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
William Faulkner -
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton -
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd -
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
Joss Whedon -
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
Anne Rice -
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
Norton Juster -
Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
Alexander Hamilton -
Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
Julianne Moore -
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
Fred Rogers -
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
Mitch Albom -
I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir -
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa -
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
John Wesley -
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
Jon Krakauer -
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
Jacques Lacan -
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
Mark Twain -
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Thomas Mann -
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Sinclair Lewis -
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
Maya Angelou -
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Vladimir Lenin -
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
Douglas MacArthur -
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.
Italo Calvino -
Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to be as rewarding as they make them for their potential mates; they want the emotions that they turn on full blast to be met with the same intensity; and they expect the premium they put on commitment to be equally adhered to, valued, and respected.
Steve Harvey -
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
Colin Powell -
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia -
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse that it is.
Margaret Mitchell -
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John Gardner -
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state—it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
Dean Koontz -
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
David Benioff -
God does not patch up the old life,or make certain repairs on the old life;He gives a new life, through the new birth.
Kathryn Kuhlman -
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again â nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.
Erich Maria Remarque -
Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson
Drake -
When I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman -
We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.
Lloyd Alexander -
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein -
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?
John Wesley -
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal -
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton -
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. Skinner -
God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
Kelly Clarkson -
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward -
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.
Dan Gable -
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Alfred Adler -
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Yogi Berra -
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
David Hume -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
Jacques Lacan -
Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret.
Louis Armstrong -
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
Maya Angelou -
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
Esther Hicks -
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.
Frantz Fanon -
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do
Lana Del Rey -
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
Robert M. Pirsig -
You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.
Bill Belichick -
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Italo Calvino -
Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
Lily Tomlin -
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard -
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.
Tariq Ramadan -
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.
Harvey Milk -
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
John Irving -
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
Dolores Huerta -
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
Pat Conroy -
There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.
Ella Baker -
Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
Joan of Arc -
Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.
Jim Morrison -
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
Even More Giving Quotes
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Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul
George Harrison -
As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
Knut Hamsun -
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman -
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
Lloyd Alexander -
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy Height -
I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.
David Livingstone -
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Gabriela Mistral -
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.
William Booth -
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Helen Keller -
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Beverly Cleary -
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant -
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas -
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Emile Durkheim -
Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
Denis Johnson -
I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
Saadat Hasan Manto -
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
Eve Merriam -
Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . Thats what I would like to do. I think thats one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music.
John Coltrane -
Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.
Betty White -
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Nancy Reagan -
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper -
Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.
Greg Behrendt -
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill -
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you — either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.
John Wayne -
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.
Katherine Mansfield -
When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this—instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy—we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.
James Redfield -
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
George Carlin -
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
George Whitefield -
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks -
It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
William Saroyan -
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Honore de Balzac -
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others
Denis Diderot -
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen -
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy -
...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
Andrei Tarkovsky -
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole -
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev -
God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
Julian of Norwich -
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.
David Deida -
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. Sheen -
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
Hans Christian Andersen -
Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." âThe law of Badger Lords
Brian Jacques -
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan -
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman -
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard -
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries Shah -
I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely
Patricia Cornwell -
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.
Ian Mcewan -
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
Judith Guest -
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt -
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson -
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made. And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than how is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
Kent Nerburn -
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
Jean-Luc Godard -
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?
Angela Carter -
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Oscar Hammerstein II -
Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.
Bette Greene -
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Peace Pilgrim -
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr -
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
O. Henry -
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie -
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam Brown -
Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]
Charles de Gaulle -
How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?
Gary Smalley -
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
John Barrymore -
You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich.
Isabel Allende -
We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Anne Bishop -
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
Franz Schubert -
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac -
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins -
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris -
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici -
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
Donald Miller -
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
Alfie Kohn -
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention
Richard Moss -
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.
Lynne Truss -
To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.
Karen Horney -
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
Alexander McQueen -
How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?
Sophie Scholl -
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch -
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.
Antonio Gramsci -
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
Red Adair -
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
Gregory Peck -
Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to"¦just to give back to it what it's given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it"¦just to be in the world, really.
Jeff Buckley -
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel -
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?
John Ashbery -
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.
Tracy Kidder -
If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.
Neil Strauss -
The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
Bill Gates -
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
Max Barry -
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
Beverley Mitchell -
I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
Jordan Belfort -
There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.
Helmut Newton -
Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.
Gary Zukav -
Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
Karen Armstrong -
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
Henry A. Wallace -
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon -
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett -
Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.
Barry Lopez -
Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
Mariah Carey -
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison -
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner -
Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.
John Bingham -
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland -
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Zoltan Kodaly -
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price -
I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a widow's son outlawed and must be obeyed.
Ned Kelly -
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.
Ludwig Feuerbach -
Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost — Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.
Craig Thompson -
The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
John Ashbery -
It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.
Tim O'Brien -
Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
Christopher Marlowe -
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein -
It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.
Thor Heyerdahl -
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin -
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh -
Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.
Jennifer Love Hewitt -
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou -
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
The person most in control is the person who can give up control.
Frederick Salomon Perls -
How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
Sophie Scholl -
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
Eric Berne -
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
Dar Williams -
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
Candace Bushnell -
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
Donald Miller -
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein -
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Fanny Burney -
My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.
Max Stirner -
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
Cathy Guisewite -
When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock -
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou -
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahlil Gibran -
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
David Viscott -
Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
Adam Michnik -
Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
Adriana Lima -
We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Joseph Jefferson -
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten -
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
Georges Bataille -
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.
Robert Wright -
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
Ralph Abernathy -
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
John Greenleaf Whittier -
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer -
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.
Chaim Potok -
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole -
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille -
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'
Bill Bowerman -
My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know — and I giveyou three guesses which one went.
Jeff Beck -
The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice...
Chetan Bhagat -
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.
Ansel Adams -
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett -
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jimenez -
Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish
Mao Zedong -
If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
Benny Goodman -
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
Countee Cullen -
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Frederic Bastiat -
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara de Angelis -
You can do anything you put your mind to. I believe in all of you. Never doubt yourself, even if everyone around you is doubting you. Stand tall. Prove them all wrong.Each and every one of you have something amazingly special about you and don’t let anyone tell you any different. Thank you for being my fans.. and my friends. Thank you for giving me a reason to sing. Thank you for being you.
Carrie Underwood -
The easiest way to make money is -create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.
Jordan Belfort -
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler -
The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
John Archibald Wheeler -
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
Henry Moore -
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
William Cobbett -
God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.
Johanna Spyri -
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
James Patterson -
The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.
Andrew Peterson -
tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.
Linda Hogan -
The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect
Neil Peart -
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Ellen Barkin -
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein -
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm -
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Voltairine de Cleyre -
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Karl Rahner -
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali -
Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.
Julian Simon -
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human...
Primo Levi -
Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.
Howard Pyle -
In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!
Angie Dickinson -
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Jane Roberts -
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
James Hansen -
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez -
Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others
Eric Berne -
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova -
God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.
Frank Laubach -
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Barbara Bush -
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
Charles Krauthammer -
Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
Mitch Albom -
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
Alan Perlis -
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Eknath Easwaran -
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
Dave Allen -
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
Mariah Carey -
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
George Washington Carver -
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White -
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
Chuck Noll -
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
Paul Rand -
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
Kathleen Norris -
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
Thomas Moore -
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
Anwar Sadat -
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
Henry James -
I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!
Gaston Leroux -
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.
Richard J. Foster -
Life takes on the meaning that you give it.
Liz Murray -
In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is — in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.
Amy Bloom -
It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
Brandon Boyd -
One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?
Ted Hughes -
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Andrew Mellon -
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash -
In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists—within his inseparable unity—the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
Giving up was never an option
Lance Armstrong -
Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.
Peter Behrens -
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
Patti Smith -
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons—make daiquiris.
Chris Rose -
Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.
Judith Orloff -
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp -
What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
Thomas Mann -
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished
Djuna Barnes -
MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.....
John Prine -
Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.
Catherine Booth -
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
William Ames -
You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show
Jim Carroll -
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Katherine Anne Porter -
You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.
Louis Sachar -
Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.
Bruce Lee -
I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
Lars von Trier -
We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.
George Lincoln Rockwell -
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn -
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement...as if they were lost and desperate.
Pablo Casals -
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette -
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
Tony Snow -
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
Oprah Winfrey -
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
Francois Truffaut -
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield -
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide -
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
Bernard Meltzer -
the smile you give is the smile you get back.
Goldie Hawn -
She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.
Portia de Rossi -
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
Alfred de Vigny -
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson -
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?
Jon Katz -
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
Anthony Robbins -
Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.
Elsa Schiaparelli -
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
James Russell Lowell -
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing -
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan Paton -
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
Barbara Bush -
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
Grantland Rice -
Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)
Knut Hamsun -
The simplest things give me ideas.
Joan Miro -
The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.
Dinesh D'Souza -
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
Adam Osborne -
did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works
William Steig -
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
Damon Runyon -
...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)
Keith Ablow -
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
Louise Bogan -
We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
Eugene Delacroix -
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole Appleton -
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
Emil Nolde -
Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.
Craig Ferguson -
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning -
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Robert Collier -
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
Don DeLillo -
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Alfred P. Sloan -
In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
Albert Speer -
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
Roberto Clemente -
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
Imelda Marcos -
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
Charles Darwin -
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
Black Elk -
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.
Laurie R. King -
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.
Brian Clough -
We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.
Gaylord Nelson -
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick -
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Larry Wall -
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney -
Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly
Joe Orton -
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
Loretta Young -
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu -
Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.
Ellis Peters -
That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.
Connie Willis -
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier -
One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.
Colin Wilson -
If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
Ben Harper -
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer -
There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.
Connie Willis -
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
Joyce Cary -
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
Carl Linnaeus -
Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
Pauline Hanson -
Give luck a chance to happen.
Tom Kite -
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
Carlos Santana -
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Kate Chopin -
Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.
Michael Flatley -
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard -
Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.
Bob Burg -
There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant . . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.
Kristin Chenoweth -
Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland -
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
Blaise Pascal -
What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
Chanakya -
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.
Roger Corman -
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
Mick Jagger -
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
William Hazlitt -
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Walter Pater -
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
Gabriel Byrne -
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden -
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill Shankly -
You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is
Enya -
Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
Robert Collier -
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.
John Barnes -
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
Herbert Butterfield -
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.
John Huston -
I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
William Allen White -
You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.
Chris Crutcher -
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.
Raquel Welch -
The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
Marge Piercy -
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page -
I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.
Bon Scott -
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice -
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman -
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
Edwin Markham -
She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair.
Edmond Rostand -
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.
Lawrence Block -
I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
Jim McDermott -
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
Desiderius Erasmus -
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crテδィme de la crテδィme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
Maggie Smith -
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Melvin Maddocks -
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Alexander Alekhine -
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Jean de la Bruyere -
You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.
Bill Cosby -
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
Joyce Brothers -
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold -
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
Clifford Stoll -
...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
Edith Wharton -
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Phillips Brooks -
There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.
John H. Groberg -
To take offense is to give offense.
Helen Schucman -
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
Boris Yeltsin -
I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.
Boyd Rice -
After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?
Tom Holt -
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
Judith Jamison -
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey Newton -
You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
Frank McCourt -
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
Alice James -
In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
Barry White -
The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.
Henry Hazlitt -
History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.
Kedar Joshi -
Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.
Jean Lorrain -
Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.
Jim Clyburn -
Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?
Laurie R. King -
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
Jean Toomer -
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
Tracy Kidder -
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.
Rick Steves -
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil -
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier -
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
William Petersen -
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Eden Phillpotts -
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Tom Hayden -
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller -
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.
Thomas Tusser -
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
Rita Mae Brown -
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho -
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Jean Anouilh -
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller -
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Carolyn Wells -
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.
Beth Moore -
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Pat Riley -
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
Jean Baudrillard -
The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.
Kenny Loggins -
As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.
Lawrence Block -
Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.
Cheryl Strayed -
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori -
Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.
Edward Bouverie Pusey -
We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.
Charles Wright -
I wouldn't give myself any advice, because advice is kinda bullshit. Take a deep breath and don't take any of it too seriously.
Cher -
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou -
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir -
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
Du Fu -
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Ill give you a definite maybe.
Samuel Goldwyn -
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.
Christian Wiman -
If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon
Po Bronson -
When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!
Carol Alt -
Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus -
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia -
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost — all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
A. Powell Davies -
It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
Ian Anderson -
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.
David Nicholls -
You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
George Foreman -
Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.
Frank Leahy -
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
Bliss Carman -
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
Chen Shui-bian -
I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.
Marge Piercy -
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
Hildegard Knef -
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Nan Fairbrother -
"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "
Kin Hubbard -
First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.
Rob Schneider -
My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.
Keith Sweat -
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Peace Pilgrim -
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries Shah -
The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.
Jim Stovall -
You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.
Michelle Wie -
The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
Gordon Smith -
The object of art is to give life shape.
Jean Anouilh -
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Anzia Yezierska -
He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes.
Percy Ross -
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
Janet Malcolm -
The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.
Herbert Bayard Swope -
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald -
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles de Gaulle -
Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.
Lars von Trier -
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.
Bobby Scott -
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
Rachel Simmons -
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
Ian Williams -
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Ruth Carter Stapleton -
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
Amy Alcott -
You try to give away what you want yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold -
I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.
Kevin Garnett -
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Charles Churchill -
Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
Billy Casper -
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard -
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith -
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
Tony Kushner -
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.
Tristan Bernard -
[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word.
Thomas Watson -
Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.
Kurt Russell -
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
Gerald Brenan -
Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
Edmund Waller -
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy Graham -
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately -
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger -
Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Chin-Ning Chu -
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Andre Malraux -
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
Carolyn Wells -
To receive a 10-point ride is a blessing in itself, but to have it honored by giving to those who could use a little support to accomplish the things they want to do in life is a bigger blessing. The school is something I believe hugely in. They provide a special place for kids to understand things that many people avoid or never learn to deal with their whole lives.
Kelly Slater -
If you want it, you've got to give it.
Lenny Wilkens -
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah -
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking
Joyce Grenfell -
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell -
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.
Christopher Buckley -
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Toru Takemitsu -
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
Anthony Wayne -
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
Brian Williams -
It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.
Antonin Artaud -
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Brooks Atkinson -
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Van Wyck Brooks -
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Edwina Currie -
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
Anouk Aimee -
The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
Bob Riley -
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
Bill Mauldin -
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.
Angie Martinez -
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
Pindar -
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron -
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
Frank Murphy -
I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.
Arthur Godfrey -
They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.
Susan RoAne -
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Henry Drummond -
Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
Christine Warren -
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly -
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel Clowes -
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris -
If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart
Arab Proverb -
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton -
Give and ye shall receive.
Bram Cohen -
You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
Donald Rumsfeld -
I'd like to give divorce a good name.
Geraldo Rivera -
One thing you'll say for skeletons, they'll always give you a smile.
Steve Aylett -
Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.
Jim Stovall -
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
Luther Burbank -
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.
Bob Geldof -
At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
Robert Fritz -
What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.
David Brenner -
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford -
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
Maurice Chevalier -
To give importance to trifling matters.
John Heywood -
Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.
James Howe -
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Rudyard Kipling -
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Abraham Cowley -
The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
Benjamin Haydon -
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship — a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
Anthony Storr -
Anytime I get to be around the fans it's always a good time, especially during Music Fest. CMA puts together an event that allows artists to make that personal connection with the fans and it's wonderful. I look at it as our chance to give back to them and let them know we appreciate their support.
Billy Currington -
The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
Alfred Bester -
God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.
Allison Pearson -
She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
Al Stewart -
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles Schumer -
... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
Ahmed Chalabi -
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
Swami Vivekananda -
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
William Wycherley -
It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
Barbara Hershey -
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
Bernard Malamud -
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
Bette Greene -
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harvey S. Firestone -
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
Judith Krantz -
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.
Edward Noyes Westcott -
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
Jimmy Cannon -
Fear can give you urgent wings.
Margaret Mahy -
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley -
The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.
Howard Rheingold -
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
Alexander MacLaren -
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
Robert Herrick -
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
Anthony Norvell -
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha -
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson -
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.
Damon Knight -
Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
Alan Rickman -
While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.
Muriel Fox -
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin -
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford -
You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.
William Albert Allard -
It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
Augustine Birrell -
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
Simone de Beauvoir -
You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.
James Stephens -
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.
Sun Tzu -
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
Frank Dane -
It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran -
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Robert Quillen -
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes -
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire -
I always want to give the victim a voice.
Ann Rule -
To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.
Tristan Bernard -
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.
John Larroquette -
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
Queen Victoria -
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.
John Wesley -
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
Hugh Blair -
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates -
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Leo Baeck -
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere -
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
John Fitzgerald Kennedy -
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne Dyer -
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
Jean Baudrillard -
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin -
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.
Irving Layton