Giving Quotes · Page 295

My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

— Andrea Gibson

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

— Abraham Lincoln

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

— Doris McCarthy

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

— Joyce Meyer

It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

— Michel de Certeau

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

— Pope Francis

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

— Lyriq Bent

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

— Mikhail Tal

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is…

— Maya Angelou

I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as…

— Jeanette Winterson

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind…

— Charles Colson

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken…

— Elton John

If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every…

— Desmond Tutu

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me…

— Larry Holmes

“I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often…

— Scott Stabile

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up…

— Thomas Merton

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and…

— H. L. Mencken

A budget is not an issue. I mean a budget is used if you need more weeks or more time or more…

— Alfonso Cuaron

A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used.…

— Robert Barry

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell…

— John Updike

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing…

— Gary L. Francione

Good God, you don’t give up.” “Nope.” I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his smile spread in response to the sound. “I’m…

— J. Lynn

It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an…

— Charles Darwin

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.

— Phyllis Diller

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

— Norman Douglas

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

— Walter Russell

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

— Grantland Rice

We will unearth the talent from every part of India and give them a platform to make it big.

— Mukesh Bansal

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

— Marjane Satrapi

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

— Henri Matisse

Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.

— Dacher Keltner

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

— Kesha

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

— Michael Caine

You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.

— Karen Marie Moning

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare

— Kingsley Amis

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement

— David Wolfe

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

— Walt Whitman