Giving Quotes - Page 57

Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

You are responsible for what you give your attention to.

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

Public worship occurs when the people of God assemble for the express purpose of giving to the Lord the glory due His name and enjoying the joy of His promised special presence with His own people.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.