On Giving Quotes

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

A lot of American companies are now moving into Iraq. Iraq now has Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell and Popeye's fried chicken. So, great, instead of oil for food, we're giving them oil in food.

Anybody who gives their car to a valet isn't a car guy

Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

I love all these politicians, they all say the same thing - 'We'll give California back to the people.' Yeah, great, now that it's not worth anything, they want to give it back to us.

BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

I definitely think education is important and both education and sport link really well together. I like to give education and sport the best that I can to see if I can succeed in both.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

Whoever finds that they're not prepared to give their all should draw the inescapable conclusion from that and stop.

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless.

Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.

...love him enough to give him this, even if it's at the price of your pride." (Annette to Cat)

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

This is something - we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.

If you want more love in your life, you could not find a better gift to give yourself, a friend, or a lover.

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

You take a normal guy, give him a wife, give them time, and you've got AN IDIOT!

Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

Art helped give me confidence.

When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.