Giving Quotes - Page 659

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

I am confident. I never give up.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

You need to understand the receiver and the offense you're facing that week. Know his tendencies and what routes he runs out of what formations. This will help you understand the concepts of what the receiver is going to give you on a given play, and make you that much better defending him.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

It made me a household name, but nothing comes for nothing. What I had to give physically, emotionally and vocally to that role took a bit of my soul away.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive.

I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn't matter that he'd bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered.

I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me.

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.