Giving Quotes · Page 197

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

— Timothy Keller

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

— Jennifer Garner

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

— Bentley Little

I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.

— Michael Jackson

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.

— John Ruskin

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

— Jack Nicholson

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to…

— Camryn Manheim

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with…

— Mario Batali

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

— Ron Fournier

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people.…

— Mark Haddon

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

— James Heckman

A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up.…

— David Leonhardt

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

— Emile Hirsch

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read,…

— Ricky Gervais

[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were…

— Daphne du Maurier

Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern…

— Walter Gropius

Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given…

— Kenneth Boa

The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most…

— Meister Eckhart

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where…

— Neil Gaiman

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually…

— Regina Brett

Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who…

— Marcus Giles

We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best…

— Barbara Lee

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

— Lorrie Moore

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

— Rosalynn Carter

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.

— Steve McNair

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

— Alison Elliott

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

— Will Rogers

“Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.”

— Anonymous

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

— S. D Gordon

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship,

— Leandra Medine

It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto.

— Frederick Lenz

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

— Francis Bacon

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for,

— Hugh Jackman

“The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.”

— Nicole Krauss

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

— Henry Hazlitt

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

— Gary Coleman

I give a tenth of my salary to charity every month, so in terms of giving back, I do my best.

— Wilfried Zaha