Giving Quotes

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

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.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.

The secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth.

Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.

If I was going to give Matt (Kenseth) a piece of advice, I'd say use the s- out of him. Every time you get, run him hard, because that's his weakness.

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.