Giving Quotes

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

God gives all God asks all

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.