Quotes about giving
giving-up race mind
I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race. Sarah Vowell
giving-up fighting night
Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight Sarah McLachlan
giving mind leave-me-alone
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. Sarah McLachlan
giving advice suggestions
So what's your second suggestion?" "Tread lightly." "That's it? That's the best advice you can give me?" "All right, tread very lightly. Sarah MacLean
giving-up temptation soul
Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment. Sarah MacLean
giving frustrated answers
All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions. Sarah Michelle Gellar
giving stories answers
The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story. Sarah Michelle Gellar
giving church trying
I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming Sara Paretsky
giving bottles want
All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip. Sara Gruen
giving desire his-love
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love. Samuel Rutherford
giving justice judging
A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Samuel Johnson
giving splendor hours
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. Samuel Johnson
giving guilt weight
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying. Samuel Johnson
giving-up scary might
It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary. Sarah Polley
giving desire reason
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. Wallace Stevens
giving people theatre
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. Vivien Leigh
giving limits hollywood
I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me. Ving Rhames
giving car culture
But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own. Vincent Kartheiser
giving intellectual purpose
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment. Willard Gaylin
giving suffering meaning-of-life
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. Walter Kaufmann
giving-up real lying
Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening. Walter Lippmann
giving-up men thinking
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky. Walter Lippmann
giving sage want
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually. Voltaire
giving pleasure kill-me
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure. Voltaire
giving letters woe
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. Voltaire
giving memorial woe
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
giving feelings faults
Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority. William Feather
giving people advice
Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway. William Feather
giving lightning thunder
did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works William Steig
giving want ready
Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give. William Steig
giving darkness signals
The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep. William Stafford
giving-up real kids
My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop? William Stafford
giving-up men world
Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this. William Ralph Inge