Giving Quotes - Page 359

I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10.

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.