Giving Quotes

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say to them, "Well, now you know what I've been going through for the last three years!"

I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

He changed his position on virtually everything. I'm a moderate Republican, that's what I am, so I'd be inclined to support someone like Mitt Romney. But all those changes give me pause.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

[Donald] Trump doesn't give up and let [the Democrats] have what they want. But people around Trump and some others in the world of politics do.

I try to put myself in the shoes of people in the news. I'm in the news myself quite a lot. But there's many days I give thanks I'm not in the news and the news that's out there.

I collect cigars. I love giving 'em away to people that really enjoy 'em, and I could think of no better place than West Point!

Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

[Donald] Trump is speaking in Philadelphia on military matters. He's doing quite well. I want to join a little bit of this in progress just to give you a flavor for how Trump is sounding.

"Just give your life to us and stop worrying about things," is what Obama's message is, and people don't want to do that.

If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love to criticize them and it's got people in need, people out of work.

Hillary Clinton doesn't give anybody anything. With Hillary Clinton it's all incoming. There's no outgoing, there's no outflow with Hillary Clinton.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.

I want to be different, and fashion gives me that outlet to do that.

A camera gives you a purpose.

The camera gives you some control.

Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.

If I don't wear something for a year, I give it away.

Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

Give what You command and command what You will.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!