Giving Quotes

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

God gives you a life and says, 'Okay, what are you going to do with it?'

Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.