Giving Quotes · Page 258

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

— Joseph Joubert

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

— Isabel Toledo

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

— Velupillai Prabhakaran

I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - period.

— BJ the Chicago Kid

When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

— Joel Osteen

Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.

— Publilius Syrus

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

— John Barnes

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to…

— Andy Van Slyke

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when…

— Julianna Margulies

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to…

— Marcus Aurelius

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that…

— Rob Lowe

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational;…

— Paul Bloom

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know;…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead…

— Fred Upton

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help…

— David Rubenstein

Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you…

— Madonna Ciccone

Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our…

— Francis of Assisi

The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to…

— Martin Luther

I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me…

— Nick Goepper

To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in…

— Wendell Berry

Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into…

— Anonymous

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.

— Greg Laurie

The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

— Alex Ferguson

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

— Narendra Modi

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

— Jim Hightower

“What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.”

— Alexandre Dumas

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

— John Twelve Hawks

Don't eat those nice green dollars your wife gives you for breakfast.

— Denise Levertov

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

— Winston Churchill

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters,

— Stuart Scott

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

— Ovid

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

— Samuel Richardson

One of the greatest provisions for people like me, to be honest with you - I give up a lot when I…

— Donald Trump

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

— Philo

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

— William James