Giving Quotes - Page 96

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.

The more you love, the more love you are given to love with.

I don't give a damn what people think.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

It truly is the power that you have deep within yourself that gives you the strength to pursue your dreams.

North Korea will never give up its arsenal. It's all that is keeping us alive. Look at Saddam Hussein - and we never forget that North Korea was named as part of the "axis of evil" a year before the United States invaded Iraq. Do you think we would be stupid enough to believe American promises after all this? We are a nuclear power. That is not negotiable. We are willing to talk about limits freezes - but we would need to be given something in return security, in the form of diplomatic recognition by Washington and guarantees of nonaggression from China, Japan and the United States.

Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.

I'm giving everyone involved 24 hours to make it right or the world will hear how I really feel.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed...the energies of enlightenment arises from the very same natural origins as those which give rise to our everyday passions and emotions.

To forgive is human, to forget divine.

Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.