Giving Quotes · Page 230

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

— Miriam Shor

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

— Herbert Spencer

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

— Adrian Rogers

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

— Dodie Smith

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

— Cynthia McKinney

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

— Pope Francis

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is … it gives everyone a voice.

— Brian Solis

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's…

— Liu Yang

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence…

— Louise Bourgeois

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have…

— Josh Radnor

I've always been known more for giving assists than scoring - but of course, I enjoy scoring goals, too.

— Jesus Navas

Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious,…

— Frederick Lenz

If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at…

— Ernest Gaines

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to…

— Amber Riley

Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to…

— William L. Shirer

It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no…

— Ardeth Kapp

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really…

— Natalie Merchant

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness.…

— Richard J. Foster

This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been…

— Rand Paul

You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it…

— Marianne Williamson

Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving.

— Jen Lilley

In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

— Hiro Fujiwara

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

— Robert Half

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

— Andy Warhol

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

— Joe Hart

I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

— Bernard Baruch

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

— Christopher Reeve

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

— John Ford

Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

— Blake Lewis

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

— Emile Hirsch

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

— Anonymous