Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Francis Spufford

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Francis Schaeffer

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

If he is smart, he will do this quickly, be generous and move on.

Joan Armatrading

If I'm at home and something comes I might try to write it down, but generally out and about I wouldn't write it down, I'd just hope I'd remember it.

Will Rogers

I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money

John Abizaid

I do think there is a general lack of understanding in the United States as to how it's going,

Ron Perlman

I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of performance.

I am not going to budge as long as there is no response from the United States. We have already made a generous offer.

Sasha Alexander

I am not even part of this whole microwave generation that is my generation, Gen X. I'm right in the middle of it.

I don't think the kids know how loved they are. It's just overwhelming the generosity people have.

Barry Zito

I can never really get to a level that will satiate me. I think in general it's hard to find that. I can do it with my family.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Before Mr. Spencer unveils his grand plan for winning the general election, he should make sure he gets there first.

Peter Capaldi

Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Neale Donald Walsch

Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)

Mike Leigh

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Joseph Addison

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Jo Brand

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Jimmy Carter

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Jack Hanna

The L.A. Zoo is a respected institution, the general manager is highly thought of, the L.A. Zoo is one of the top zoos in the world,

W. S. Gilbert

The list of genes that will come out of the genome project will be the tool that turns our questions into global ones.

James St. James

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

James Mackintosh

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

Ellen Goodman

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Ellen G. White

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

All the pressures are related to development. More people need more water. They generate more water. They generate more storm water. All of those things can be managed. All of those problems have solutions, but some ways are better than others.

All the ideals which men generally think are realities, you have learned to see through; you have learned that they are your ideals.