Giving Quotes - Page 127

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I'd like to be on stage at England's National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. And to be making some Oscar-worthy movies with Scorsese. I'm always looking for the hard road. That way, you remain interested and interesting. Hopefully.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

You know that girl that always forgave you? That always loved you? That always took you back? Pretty soon, she’ll give up and find someone better.

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

When the believer is faced with a decision regarding a questionable matter, he should never proceed unless he has complete peace about it. If there is nothing wrong with it, then God is able to give complete peace.

The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so that it will take form.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this algorithm is and implement it on a computer, that can help us make a lot of progress.

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side.

Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.