Giving Quotes - Page 61

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that eveloution owes its generally progressive cource, its successive conquests, and the impresssion it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding.

Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!

Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

Do not imprison those about you to your way of thinking; give your companion the opportunity to interpret life as freely as you do.

My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.

I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him.

We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?