Giving Quotes - Page 559

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.

What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.

I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.

If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

Those who want respect, give respect.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.

We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.