Giving Quotes

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

That's one of the main thing with the lyrics - not giving any answers.

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

We need empathy to give empathy.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

There's the kind of love where being around someone makes you feel energized. Just being around them gives you more energy than less.

The more you give, the more your heart is filled. Love is a never ending stream.

As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.

Work. Study. Focus. Dedicate yourself to it and don't give up.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.