Generosity Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image ““cold as charity”” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity
“A blanket could be used to feed the homeless. I mean warm the coldless. I mean coldsome. I wouldn’t know, because I’m homefull. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Poverty’s a chilly theme,” he said; “let’s take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.” — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Charity … is the opium of the privileged; from the good citizen who habitually drops ten kobo from his loose change and from a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“The cold December sun A cold that blisters The hands of a working man Wasted” — David Sylvian Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s) — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I think more and more people are becoming much more sensitive to what they do with their money when they die, especially if they… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
