Generous Quotes · Page 13

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

— Pierce Brosnan

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

— Marilyn Monroe

Foundations exist to help charities, to help those in need. And Mr. Trump has been incredibly generous throughout his career.

— Kellyanne Conway

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

— Michel de Montaigne

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are…

— David Gross

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

— Frank A. Clark

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

— Wilkie Collins

People f-ckin with me, they aint f-ckin with you. Lyrically sup hmm being generous too.

— Wale

I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and…

— Kathryn Hahn

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most…

— William Ellery Channing

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat…

— Anonymous

We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the…

— William Henry Willimon

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are…

— Beth Anderson

Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous…

— Kate Hudson

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and…

— D. H. Lawrence

The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We…

— Paul McCartney

We live in a very risky world and investors should not get "carried away" with excessive allocations to equities, or for that…

— John C. Bogle

“There are no totally generous acts. All "acts" have an element of calculation. One black ox slaughtered on Christmas does not wipe…

— Richard B. Lee

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back…

— Dave Eggers

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and…

— Ted Allen

Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to…

— Jon Gordon

And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of…

— Salman Rushdie

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

— Ann Radcliffe

The Islanders and their owner, Garth Snow, were very generous with me and let me do some cool stuff inside the organization.

— Kevin Connolly

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

— John Jay Chapman

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

— Cate Blanchett

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

— Quentin Crisp

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

— John Kennedy

Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.

— Patrick Pichette

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

— Max Irons

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

— Saadi

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

— Margaret Cho

What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

— Emmylou Harris

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

— Herman Melville

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

— Franz Bardon