Giving Quotes - Page 338

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

There's so many great, fantastic compliments I need to give that girl. Three words isn't enough.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever.' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

The more you give, the more good things come to you.

The problem isn't testosterone and aggression; it's how often we reward aggression. And we do: We give medals to masters of the "right" kinds of aggression. We preferentially mate with them. We select them as our leaders.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.