Giving Quotes · Page 129

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

— Jane Austen

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

— Kapil Dev

The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.

— Al Ries

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

— Anonymous

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

— Martin Luther

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

— Kate Bush

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

— Shannyn Sossamon

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give…

— Diana Gabaldon

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in…

— Andrew Carnegie

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.…

— Ian Mcewan

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to…

— Scott Haze

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is…

— Horace

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want…

— Stirling Moss

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are…

— J. L. Austin

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime…

— Robert Scheid

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which…

— Vaclav Havel

What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but…

— Mark Millar

We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for…

— Bill Murray

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of…

— Mike Birbiglia

Twelve years ago my mother gets her cataracts removed. So twelve years ago the doctor gives her these enormous sunglasses to wear…

— Judy Gold

As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will…

— Rene Dubos

I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think…

— Bertrand Russell

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

— Arsene Wenger

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

— Cormac McCarthy

Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.

— Dennis Kimbro

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

— Sebastian Horsley

“It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.

— Max Lucado

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

— Edward Weston

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

— Solomon

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

— Anonymous

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

— J. Oswald Sanders

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 am learning to be more humble and giving as a person.

— Prateik Babbar

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

— Joseph Wambaugh

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

— Toni Morrison