Giving Quotes - Page 349

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion.

Never give up. Look forward to the future, and don’t give a damn about haters

You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

The gift without the giver is rare.

She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.

This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

I understand the importance of giving back, and that's something I definitely want to do.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity

My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.