Giving Quotes - Page 285

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.

There is no time like the present.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.

Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

Heaven ain't something someone else can give.. It's all inside of me

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.