Khalil Gibran Quotes

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Khalil Gibran

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• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Doing
  • Planet
  • Inexcusable

• Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

  

  Major Owens
  • Government
  • Civil Rights

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Great
  • Football
  • Wall

• To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Me
  • End
  • Actor

• My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Focus
  • Priority
  • Strategy

• I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Animal
  • Environmental

• When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Nice

• One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Different
  • She
  • Career

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Famous

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Trust
  • Progress
  • Goals

• When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Special

• I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Day
  • Jesus
  • Stupid

• Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Energy
  • Understanding
  • Balance

• I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Women
  • Think
  • Nice

• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Age
  • Hair
  • Haircut

• The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

  

  Michael Horton
  • World
  • Focus
  • Holiness

• Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Job
  • Choice
  • Test

• We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

  

  Vincent Price
  • World
  • Balls
  • Broke

• The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

  

  Fritz Sauckel
  • Air

• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  

  Khalil Gibran