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Giving Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
- Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.
- Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of…
- The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so…
- I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
- I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said…
- All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/…
- you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
- ...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
- it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to…
- After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,…
- I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your…
- When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have…
- I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by…
- I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.
- I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up.…
- and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.
- And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye…
- Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.'…
More Giving Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi