Giving Quotes - Page 848

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!

A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!

Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public!

If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

Be like a flower, give hope to the world!

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well. I am filled to overflowing with joy; I am not only satisfied to be in prison ... but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus Christ.

There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of forming an intimacy with the reader. What I'm saying to the reader is: I'm going to tell you something; I'm going to be generous; I'm going to offer. The confession, on the other hand, is sort of an imposition because you're asking the reader to forgive you or somehow exonerate you or say, "Hey, I'm even worse." But what I'm interested in doing is being generous and offering a perspective or suggesting a way of thinking about something.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.

I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.