Quotes about giving
giving people choices
People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice, did ya there buddy? George Carlin
giving bullshit voting
The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election
giving-up ignorance darkness
Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.
giving-up ideas never-giving-up
Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.
giving language
Language always gives you away.
giving together littles
In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.
giving want attention
That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for.
giving should illegal
Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?
giving sick guy
Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick.
giving political incentives
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
giving trying manipulation
That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story. Gene Siskel
giving stories closure
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. Garth Ennis
giving-up believe darkness
I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe! Garth Stein
giving lucky problem
You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches. Garry Winogrand
giving-up race champion
You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time. Gail Devers
giving-up real mean
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course. Gail Sheehy
giving done bears
That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds? Frederick Buechner
giving long silence
ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
giving mind littles
To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
giving-up self way
It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.
giving answers doe
God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
giving missing feelings
Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.
giving world christ
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
giving focus individual
My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can. Frank Thomas
giving ifs
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you. Frank Sinatra
giving sound dimes
I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it. George Eastman
giving feelings special
Ferrari gives you a special feeling. Fernando Alonso
giving glory poor
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes. Fernando Pessoa
giving personality soul
Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.
giving mind important
It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed. Felix Frankfurter
giving tears already-gone
No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone. Fay Weldon
giving directors needs
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. Fanny Brice
giving-up dont-give-up littles
Have a little faith. Don't give up. Fantasia Barrino