Giving Quotes

'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!

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.

Good words will not give me back my children.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.

So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give a lot of consideration to.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

Consider Palin for President? The most powerful job on earth? You don't give the dumb cheerleader the Uzi. That's in the Bible.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

Just trying to keep everything in check, you know, it gives me a lot of respect for closers. You're doing that 75 times a year, so that's pretty impressive.

There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.