Giving Quotes · Page 98

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

— Josh Billings

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

— Dee Dee Ramone

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

— J. Oswald Sanders

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

— David Simon

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

— John Lennon

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

— Terry Pratchett

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure.…

— Wendy Lesser

Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she…

— Ernie Els

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking…

— A. R. Rahman

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich…

— John Ruskin

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.…

— Barbara Deming

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand,…

— Tom Paulin

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the…

— Oliver Herford

So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using…

— Ajay Devgan

The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts…

— Roberto Calasso

Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them…

— Willow Smith

It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more than…

— Astra Taylor

All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of…

— George C. Scott

It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and…

— David Foster Wallace

I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more,…

— Ottmar Liebert

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was…

— Alice Hoffman

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

— Billy Graham

“Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.”

— David McGee

A person in torment is not going to give you anything.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

— Khalil Gibran

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

— Seneca the Younger

People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about

— Lady Gaga

Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

— Piero Ferrucci

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

— Jules Renard

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

— Immanuel Kant

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

— Allen Wheelis

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

— A. J. Jacobs

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

— Jon Mead

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

— Janelle Monae

Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

— Johannes Gutenberg

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

— Alice James

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

— Neil Warnock