Giving Quotes - Page 231

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

I do things my own way!..so don't give me any lip about it!

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.