Giving Quotes - Page 591

It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

For me, I don't do nip or bush. I won't do it. And that's because I talk to numerous young women in high school and I talk to them about owning who they are, and not giving up their sexuality because they have to.

The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.

I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.