Giving Quotes · Page 159

No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

— Rajneesh

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

— Joseph Joubert

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

— Paul Beatty

Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

— Anonymous

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

— Ned Vizzini

The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.

— Kiran Bedi

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

— Constance Hale

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

— Sargent Shriver

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological…

— Shirley Jackson

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in…

— C. S. Lewis

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need…

— John C. Maxwell

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so…

— Benjamin Franklin

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed…

— RuPaul

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as…

— Steve Coogan

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects…

— Harry Belafonte

Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence…

— David Niven

I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one…

— Akira Toriyama

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to…

— Erwin Blumenfeld

It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside when the…

— Gisele Bundchen

I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process…

— Michael Bell

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I…

— Michel de Montaigne

Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it…

— Luc Tuymans

One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to…

— John Wooden

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

— Nadine Gordimer

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

— Neko Case

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

— Joni Mitchell

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

— Anonymous

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

— Homer

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Stephen G. Post

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

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

— John Henry Newman

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

— Blondie

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

— Eric Daman

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

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

— Mikey Way

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

— Reinhard Bonnke