Quotes about giving
giving-up winning games
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world. Howard Zinn
giving rewards establishment
The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us
giving-up sacrifice add
It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. Hosea Ballou
giving water long
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. Horace
giving asking tomorrow
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
giving liberty poet
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
giving propriety ifs
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
giving poetry pleasure
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
giving-up desire feminism
I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges. Hannah Arendt
giving-up philosophy toys
My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it. Guy Fieri
giving best-gift staying
Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love. Guy Finley
giving way moments
To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
giving people able
Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them. Gouverneur Morris
giving damn remembered
Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs. Gore Vidal
giving president politics
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
giving favors argument
I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.
giving-up sky religion
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.
giving imagination people
My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am. Gillian Flynn
giving world faces
The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
giving sometimes something-new
I also have learned as an actor, this ties in the principles of improv, sometimes someone gives a piece of instruction and my first reaction is "I don't want to do that." I've always learned that every time I just say yes and go for it something happens. Whether it's what the intent of the direction was or not or something new happens. It's just remaining open to other people's ideas. Gillian Jacobs
giving inspire emotion
I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion. Giambattista Valli
giving himself instead intolerant knows objective people sure surrounded type
He's an authoritarian, intolerant type who's sure he knows the right way to proceed. He's surrounded himself with 'yes' people. What his people are saying, because they know that's his inclination, is, 'Don't go into the debate,' instead of giving objective advice.
giving doe asks
One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives. Friedrich Nietzsche
giving noise certain
There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.
giving birth conditions
The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.
giving generosity enough
I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
giving feelings comforting
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.
giving-up thinking errors
What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
giving-up never-giving-up giving
Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up! George Benson
giving doe reason
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. George Bernard Shaw
giving people vision
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her
giving car long
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
giving-up something-new new-you
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.