Quotes about giving
giving people southern
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. Henry Walter Bates
giving needs irony
Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go. Henry Winkler
giving oracles lord
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign Heraclitus
giving sorrow flavor
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life. Henry Ward Beecher
giving-up growth return
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships. Henry Cloud
giving people feel-good
If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people. Henry Cloud
giving-up giving want
I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. Helen Thomas
giving people natural
People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could. Helena Bonham Carter
giving trifles
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. Johann Kaspar Lavater
giving humanity favors
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. Johann Kaspar Lavater
giving feelings mediocrity
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
giving-up self death-penalty
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
giving world accepting
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
giving tests serious
How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
giving rich
For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
giving able way
I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had. Haruki Murakami
giving world able
Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world. Haruki Murakami
giving-up mean eye
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it. Haruki Murakami
giving-up too-late investing
I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love. Hans Rosling
giving credit firsts
I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film. Hans Zimmer
giving answers rooms
...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers Harlan Coben
giving trying attention
But as the business grows, you get more attention and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give it less to what you're doing. Hamdi Ulukaya
giving envy together
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation. Gustav Stresemann
giving-up garden whales
I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later! Gustave Flaubert
giving generous
The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves. Gustave Flaubert
giving speech kind
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair. Greg Abbott
giving feelings trying
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent. Greg Bear
giving dating guy
A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it. Greg Behrendt
giving-up hard-work waiting
Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up. Gordon Ramsay
giving-up dont-give-up instant
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful. Gilbert K. Chesterton
giving bees skeptic
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. Gilbert K. Chesterton
giving-up wine intelligent
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create; for he is making an outline and a shape. Mohamet created, when he forbade wine but allowed five wives: he created a very big thing, which we have still to deal with. Gilbert K. Chesterton
giving want poverty
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. John Dryden