Giving Quotes

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.

WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

If you crave something, I’ll be the one to give it to you. All of your needs, Eva, are mine to fulfill. Whatever it costs me.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.

Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.

My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day. Gratitude itself is a source of joy.

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.