Giving Quotes · Page 325

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!

— Apollonius of Tyana

You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

— Dorothy Draper

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

— Christopher Moore

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

— Julia Quinn

There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.

— George W. Buck

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

— Peg Bracken

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.

— Thomas Pynchon

As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.

— Eric Daman

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

— Seth Godin

Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but…

— Kehinde Wiley

When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not…

— John Hodgman

Your love is unique. Let love remain love, don’t give it any name. The love that is defined by a relationship is…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

So time over time what will change the world, no one knows? The only promise is a day to live, to give…

— Paula Abdul

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

— Eckhart Tolle

These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more:…

— Mother Teresa

To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction…

— Karl Popper

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p'…

— John Reid

Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell…

— Leila Aboulela

I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for…

— Todd Haynes

Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness…

— John G. Lake

There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the…

— Dani Shapiro

If this is giving up, then I'm giving up, giving up...on love

— Blondie

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

— John Henry Newman

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

— Homer

Don't put your heart in someone's hands until you're sure that they know how to hold it.

— Anonymous

Don't be afraid to give someone your heart because it's the best feeling when you get theirs in return.

— Anonymous

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

— D. A. Pennebaker

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.

— Stephen G. Post

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.

— Angelo Dundee

Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

— Albert Camus

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

— Indira Gandhi

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

— Carlos H. Amado

Christ did not die to give people a career but to save the lost.

— Reinhard Bonnke

We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.

— Mikey Way