On Giving Quotes

Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

Give me an honest con man any day.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.

She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless

V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. "My monster needs to get out. Especially now.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

You have to give to be able to receive.

Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

I love when people on Twitter give advice.

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.