Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoni Tapies

I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

Bill Vaughan

You only get to keep what you give away.

Mark Steele

We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, ... even those who aren't helping us directly.

E. F. Schumacher

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

E. F. Schumacher

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Randy Levine

There is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need.

Francesc Fabregas

He was a great team-mate, hard-working, generous. Even then he looked ready for the top level.

William Wordsworth

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

David Rakoff

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

Shawn Amos

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Sophocles

Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.