On Giving Quotes

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.

Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

I played because I loved it. It was incredible when they told me they were going to sign me and they were going to give me money.

I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

I'm not going to give the same energy. I am going to give more of myself. If everyone thinks like that, it's going to be something incredible.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

You have to understand the process of healing in the Age of Aquarius. What will give the healing is the flow of your soul energy.

Love is nothing but giving, tolerating and sacrificing.

This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the coming change of the Age.

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.

Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.

The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content.

One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.

I just have to give credit when it's due because there are some things that took place in my life that I couldn't explain at all.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!