Giving Quotes

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

We must give Italians a sense of race.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.