Giving Quotes · Page 256

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

— Manuel Puig

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

— Josemaria Escriva

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

— Ann Voskamp

Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

— Lauren Cohan

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

— Nolan Ryan

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

— Ernest Legouve

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it,…

— Richard Branson

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to…

— Sandra Brown

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I know what my fans have wanted from me this whole time. 'Bad For You' and 'Anarchy' is me finally giving it…

— Lil Tracy

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

— John Stott

Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will…

— Andy Murray

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle…

— Dale Carnegie

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go…

— Anna Deavere Smith

When you are giving a certain portion of your life to people and you're selling it sexually, you're selling it sensually, and…

— Trey Songz

[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer…

— James Madison

“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to…

— N. Scott Momaday

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When…

— Natalie Goldberg

“I believe the world is divided in three groups: givers, takers and the few that can balance both impulses. Giving and loving…

— Tiffany Madison

Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the…

— Max Beerbohm

I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that…

— Ina May Gaskin

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to…

— Thomas Merton

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

— Paullina Simons

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

— Steven Spielberg

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

— Albert J. Nock

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

— John Steinbeck

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

— Meryl Davis

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

— Colum McCann

I feel like I'm giving other people such an opportunity to go and reach for something.

— Ellen Marlow

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

— Nick Vujicic

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

— Confucius

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

— David Bailey

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

— Esther Hicks

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

— Pindar

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

— Mark Twain

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

— Florence King