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Giving Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is…
- All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we…
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
- I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their…
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble…
- I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to…
- Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
- We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.…
- For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that…
- Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always…
- I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,…
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