On Giving Quotes

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

I have Twitter so I can tell people what I want them to buy and they give me money.

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

If we take, we lose. If we give, we get. It cannot be otherwise.

It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it.

Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

I‘ve said it once and I will say it again, why can‘t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can‘t other nations?

P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.

I was surprised at her gentleness, her willingness to give in.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

Love for me is the most sophisticated form that one can give for his desire, may be the only faith is remarkable on human being.

I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I am always giving my all and working to improve