On Giving Quotes

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

When I go see a performer, I don't go to criticize. I just go to be entertained. I don't go to give advice; I just go to enjoy.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

Television gives you the opportunity to create more of an ongoing camaraderie with everyone you're working with.

What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

Bill Clinton was giving the Clinton campaign the best advice.

it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.