On Giving Quotes

I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .

Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game show skills Giving talks at the WI

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.