Giving Quotes
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"
When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.
My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.
As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.
If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.
My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'
Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.
