Giving Quotes

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath: Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

To give is to receive.

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember.

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.

He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.

I want to give you the depth and the strength which is yours... the original you.

If you give your word, let the entire Universe fall before you, but let your word stand.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.

Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

To take offense is to give offense.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

Give me inspiration over information.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.