Giving Quotes

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

How many records you sell really does not matter. It's whatever you give.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.

People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.

I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

When asked by a prospective donor how much he should give, the best reply is, "Give until you are proud."

It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Donald Trump is basically giving voice to a lot of people who have felt that they were voiceless.

We're not going to end the Medicaid. We're going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again, and there is love.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.

Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.

Don't give up in your goals in life, I'm a perfect example of how dreams can come true.

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.