On Giving Quotes
It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.
Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.
A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.
Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.
We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.
Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.
There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.
We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.
The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.
It's important to give back to the community. I want to make a difference in the world!
Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.
When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.
If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
Pope Francis also I think was really pivotal in sort of sanctioning and giving that important cosign to the opening of Cuba.
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.
I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.
To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.
When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe.
You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.