On Giving Quotes

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.

My biggest struggle has been balancing where I give my energy.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

Never give up your dreams and stay focused on your passions.

I believe that the camera has aided animal welfare by giving a platform and a vision [for bringing] awareness to the most important animal-welfare issues worldwide.

You are mine, Aisling. You are mine today, tomorrow and five hundred years from now. You will always be mine. I do not give up my treasures, kincsem. You would do well to remember that.

If I go out with someone I need them to sit and give me a cuddle every night. If they don't, I wonder if they still love me.

Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

When you've been blessed, you have to share your gifts, and you also have to help others give their gifts away.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

My brother is the one that gives me the strength - if he's not strong, I'm not.

If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!

I think it's really important to know what you're putting into your body and give it nourishment.

I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

[People] just don't seem to want to give [Donald Trump] any kind of berth at all, let alone a wide berth, to govern.

Give Donald Trump a chance. Be there for him. Come together as a nation.

Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big, we are chanting to Nigerians: all we are saying, give us Goodluck.

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro.

I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?

It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.

The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.