Giving Quotes

• The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Real
  • Religious
  • Politics

• Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • People
  • Men
  • Support

• I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by those who could well afford to pay for it, that I would hereafter give advice only to myself and always sell it to others.

  

  William H. McMaster
  • Needed
  • Conclusion
  • Hereafter

• Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves. But that is far from the truth. In reality we all depend on each other and we have to help each other. The husband has to help his wife, the wife has to help the husband, the mother has to help her children, and the children are supposed to help the parents too, whether they want to or not.

  

  Gelek Rimpoche
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Strong
  • Complaining

• Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a wild animal. It gives you that extra than you have in a normal

  

  Dani Pedrosa
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Animal

• They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.

  

  William Stafford
  • World
  • Running
  • Missing

• Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Chance

• She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Life
  • Past
  • Shadow

• I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.

  

  Wes Bentley
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Perfect
  • Fall
  • Pain

• Poor little Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan... If those little girls slept with as many men as they say in the tabloids, why their little butts would have more fingerprints than the FBI! I kinda feel sorry for them. We should give those two a break.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Sorry

• God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Giving
  • Littles

• Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

  

  William Shatner
  • Fate
  • Accepting
  • Fingers

• Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.

  

  Dan Sperber
  • Culture
  • Support
  • Evidence

• In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.

  

  Chien-Ming Wang
  • Important
  • Children
  • Birth

• We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Opinion
  • Enemy
  • Judging

• The ultimate success formula: I) Decide what you want (Be precise! Clarity is power) II) Take action (because desire is not enough) III) Notice what's working or not (You don't want to continue to expend energy on an approach that's worthless IV) Change your approach until you achieve what you want (Flexibility gives you the power to create a new approach and a new result.)

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Desire

• If you love something, give it away...

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Giving

• If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

  

  Keariene Muizz
  • Painting
  • Hurts
  • Checks

• I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Space
  • Littles
  • Ease

• I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Believe
  • Giving

• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  

  Richard Jewell
  • Government
  • Reputation
  • Innocence

• I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that. I wanted to protect my reputation.

  

  Michelle Tea
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Shopping

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