Giving Quotes - Page 597

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You can’t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn't promote it. There isn't a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.

Height gives you the initiative.