Giving Quotes

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’

My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it and it can launch a career.

My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

Don't give away to others what you have not first given away at home.

Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.

Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give life.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.