Giving Quotes
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection - only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation...
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.
Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.
You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.
That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.
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.
The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.
I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.