On Giving Quotes

They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?

I'm a good party guest...the problem is, I feel like I'm working all the time. "Give us an Elvis Presley story! Give us a Frank Sinatra story!"

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?

Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

He can cook and give good massages. What more do you need in a husband?

They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really transformative changes that need to happen.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever give it up.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on.

Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.

A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.

In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

Giving people equal access to enjoying the benefits of America is the biggest problem that we're not making any progress in resolving.