Giving Quotes

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer.

Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's successful it gets into a lot of festivals.

I think this is a line in the sand for many Quebecers and Canadians: That if you're going to give services or receive services, your face should be uncovered.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.

We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.

The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

We spend too much time as people thinking about what we don't have instead of actually making a change, and we just need to make that change now because we're being giving the opportunity.

Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.

I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

I'm a big Backstreet Boys fan. I always give y'all shoutouts. I love the things y'all do.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.