Give Nothing Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
-
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
— Walter Pater
-
We give nothing so freely as advice.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
-
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but…
— Walter Pater
-
I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of…
— Maya Angelou
-
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those…
— Andrew Carnegie
-
Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
— Brian Dyson
-
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works…
— William Graham Sumner
-
The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.
— Larry Burkett
-
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
— Wallace Stevens
-
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
— PJ Harvey
-
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint…
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
-
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
— Frederic Bastiat
-
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead;…
— Eliphas Levi
-
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-
Jason, stop this,†she pleaded. “You don’t want to kiss me. You don’t even like me more than a little when you aren’t foxed†A…
— Judith McNaught
-
Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen…
— David Foster Wallace
-
You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes…
— Kathleen Turner
-
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.
— Elgin Baylor
-
We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a…
— Richard Parks Bland
Who Wrote These Give Nothing Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Give Nothing Quotes, led by these top contributors: