Giving famous quotes
05-13-2025
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
-- A. A. Gill -
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
-- A. B. Simpson -
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
-- A. B. Simpson -
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
-- A. B. Simpson -
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
-- A. B. Simpson -
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
-- A. C. Benson -
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
-- A. C. Cuza -
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
-- A. E. Housman -
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
-- A. E. Housman -
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
-- A. J. Liebling -
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.
-- A. J. Muste -
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
-- A. Powell Davies -
I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.
-- A. R. Rahman -
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
-- A.C. Grayling -
People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
-- A.M. Homes -
I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
-- A.S. King -
As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
-- Aamir Khan -
Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
-- Aamir Khan -
Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.
-- Aamir Khan -
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
-- Aaron Burr -
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
-- Aaron Copland -
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
-- Aaron Hill -
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
-- Aaron Neville -
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
-- Aaron Ross -
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
-- Aaron Stanford -
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
-- Aaron Stanford -
Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
-- Aaron Tveit -
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
I don't want to beg or promise you things I can't give you. There isn't much of me to give, but what I have is yours. This is all up to you, Sadie. If you want me, I'm yours. If you can't do this, then I'll walk away and leave you alone. I swear.
-- Abbi Glines -
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
-- Abbie Hoffman -
What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.
-- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller -
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
-- Abby May Alcott -
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
-- Abdallah II -
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
-- Abdul Kalam -
We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
-- Aberjhani -
Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
-- Abigail Johnson -
Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
-- Abigail Washburn -
None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.
-- Abraham Coles -
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
-- Abraham Cowley -
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
-- Abraham Cowley -
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
-- Abraham Maslow -
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Being the first born gives you great patience.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit
-- Aceyalone -
Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.
-- Aceyalone -
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.
-- Achim Steiner -
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
-- Ada Leverson -
If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?
-- Ada Lovelace -
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
-- Ada Lovelace -
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
-- Adam Arkin -
It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
-- Adam Arkin -
This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.
-- Adam Baldwin -
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
-- Adam Beach -
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
-- Adam Carolla -
If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.
-- Adam Garcia -
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
-- Adam Gopnik -
I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.
-- Adam Lambert -
Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
-- Adam Michnik -
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
-- Adam Osborne -
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
-- Adam Rich -
You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.
-- Adam Sandler -
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
-- Adam Schiff -
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso
