Giving Quotes · Page 149

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

— Jim Rogers

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

— Emma Goldman

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

— John Belushi

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

— Mother Teresa

If I was able to give you everything, it would still be less than what you've already given me.

— Anonymous

A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

— Socrates

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his…

— Confucius

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of…

— Walter Isaacson

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in…

— Alain de Botton

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them…

— David Foster Wallace

I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or…

— John Mellencamp

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though…

— Hayden Christensen

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

— Frederick C. Beiser

Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or…

— Laura Schlessinger

For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by…

— Rajneesh

If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to…

— Jia Zhangke

the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new…

— Regina Brett

I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from…

— Steve Inskeep

Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to…

— Paul Auster

God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

— Owsley Stanley

When you're excited about what you do, and nobody gotta give you a dime, that's next level.

— Eric Thomas

If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

— Lundy Bancroft

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

— Robert Bourassa

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

— Roger Maris

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

— Bernie Sanders

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

— Anita Baker

Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another.

— John Wooden

Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.

— Johnny Hunt

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

— James Thurber

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

— Dale Carnegie

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

— Primo Levi

God will never take away something without giving something better in its place.

— Anonymous

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

— Gelett Burgess