Giving Quotes
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.
I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.
The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.
If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages.
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.
When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence of what you can do, and you will not doubt your abilities to do anything.
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.
I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.
I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday ... I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.
Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes.