Giving Quotes · Page 294

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

— Homer

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

— Stephen G. Post

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

— D. A. Pennebaker

Don't be afraid to give someone your heart because it's the best feeling when you get theirs in return.

— Anonymous

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

— Blondie

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

— John Henry Newman

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

— Eric Daman

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

— Anonymous

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular…

— A. C. Benson

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a…

— Sean Penn

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there,…

— Anna Netrebko

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living… Interventions have…

— Chuck Feeney

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing…

— Buddy Rice

You're giving me two choices, and I'm choosing Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. I would choose Jesus over Donald Trump, probably. But…

— Anthony Scaramucci

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but…

— Dale Peck

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not…

— Alma Gluck

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in…

— Nick Hornby

When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right,…

— Henry Rollins

America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the…

— Martha Gellhorn

I would a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a…

— Rick Perry

When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try…

— Mark Webber

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking…

— Marshall McLuhan

What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?” Will demanded, giving her arm a light…

— Cassandra Clare

Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best…

— Jeffrey Tucker

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

— Ned Vizzini

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

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

— Constance Hale

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

— Kiran Bedi

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

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

— George Herbert

The greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

— Ann Landers

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

— Mason Cooley

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

— Frank Sinatra

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

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

— Will Schwalbe