Giving Quotes - Page 350

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.

Many of you are well enough off that... the tax cuts may have helped you... We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life; and that we actually have received, and do now possess as our own, gifts which come direct from God. It is a blessed thought, that from our childhood God has been laying His fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction; that even the strokes of his hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

When you give your all to something and you're hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and your history is yours to interpret. To know the history and then reinterpret it gives you additional depth.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great majority of cases in the Government Lobby, there are some issues that have arisen, or are likely to arise, upon which I am unable to give the Government the support which it has, perhaps, the right to expect from those receiving the Government Whip. It occurs to me, therefore, that it would perhaps be more satisfactory if I was no longer regarded as being among the supporters of the present Administration.