Giving Quotes - Page 268

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

The more 'adequate' we make relief, the more people we are going to find willing to get on it and stay on it indefinitely. The more we try to make sure that everybody really in need of relief gets it, the more certain we can be that we are also giving it to people who neither need nor deserve it.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

It's all about who you surround yourself with. You have to be comfortable with yourself and have friends who accept you for who you are. Also, do something that you're passionate about. When you find out what you're good at and you do it, that gives you confidence.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.