Giving Quotes · Page 199

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

— Josemaria Escriva

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

— George S. Patton

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

— Catullus

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

— Tori Amos

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

— Manuel Puig

The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

— John Henry Newman

I no longer criticize anyone--not even myself. I only give out positive vibes.

— Louise Hay

And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs."…

— Janet Evanovich

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that…

— Mark Cuban

We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives…

— Anna Quindlen

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very…

— Maxine Kumin

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it…

— Oral Roberts

I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God…

— Bill Vaughan

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if…

— Harold Bloom

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand…

— John Muir

As long as you're actively pursuing your dream with a practical plan, you're still achieving, even if it feels as though you're…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a…

— Agnes Repplier

One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader,…

— Laurie Helgoe

So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?…

— Ayn Rand

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the…

— Vincent Bugliosi

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it…

— George W. Bush

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

— Hugo Chavez

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

— Anton Chekhov

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

— Ann Brashares

“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

— Albert J. Nock

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

— John Steinbeck

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

— Steven Spielberg

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

— Ernest Legouve

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

— Nolan Ryan

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

— Paullina Simons

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

— Ann Voskamp

Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

— Lauren Cohan

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

— Winston Churchill

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

— Andrew Forrest