Giving Quotes - Page 536

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.

Independent film making is very collaborative. You feel like it's you, the director and other actors and you really feel like you have the final say. When you do the bigger films, the studio has to give the final thumbs up and they're usually not big on risk taking because they're trying to make money.

Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Give yourself to the images which are, in fact, already there.

Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!

Don't give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me in the world or something. Like I’ve overstayed my welcome here on Earth, and everyone’s trying to give me hints about that constantly. Like I should just check out.

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?