Giving Quotes - Page 613

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.

I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it.

We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.