Generous Quotes
889 quotes by 706 authors
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The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
— Marilyn Monroe
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and…
— Michael Moore
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since…
— John Forbes Nash
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Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
— Bill O'Reilly
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and…
— Gary Oldman
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
— George Osborne
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A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
— Charles W. Pickering
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Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought…
— John Podhoretz
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
— Alexander Pope
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The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous,…
— Dennis Prager
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Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family,…
— Richard Pryor
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
— Keith Richards
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to…
— Marco Rubio
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In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty,…
— Adam Schiff
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I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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