Generous Quotes

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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. — Margaret Cho
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing… — Ted Allen
As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous… — Jack Abramoff
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One… — Martin Amis
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to… — Elena Anaya
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be… — Maya Angelou
She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the… — D. H. Lawrence
We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that… — Madeleine Albright
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world… — Ronald Reagan
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life. — Ashton Kutcher
Go work until you can get the job you that want to have. And I'm really lucky to get to work with a lot of… — Ashton Kutcher
The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the… — Rosemary Verey
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in… — Subhas Chandra Bose
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people… — Paul G. Hoffman
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage

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