On Giving Quotes

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.

I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.

When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

Give money to universities — that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

I feel lucky that I didn't have to give up music in exchange for getting clean. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else continue to DJ while they're getting clean.

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

My hair dries straight naturally, so I'm always trying to find anything to give it volume or give it a little bit of bounce.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

Take me somewhere I can grow Give me something let me go Tell me something I don't know

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.