Providing Quotes:

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

- Marilyn Monroe

source: Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.127, Taylor Trade Publishing

topic: Love, Men, Providing

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.899, Delphi Classics

topic: Men, Another Time, Providing

The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

- Dan Millman

source: Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.41, H J Kramer

topic: Opportunity, Compassion, Law, Life Learning, Providing

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

- Dee Hock

topic: Motivation, Integrity, Understanding, Impotence, Knowledge Experience

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: People, Vision, Release, Civil Rights Movement, Press Release

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

- Sherry Turkle

source: "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other". Book by Sherry Turkle, 2011.

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Technology, Social Interaction, Sherry

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

topic: Trust In The Lord, Lord, Ends, Instruments Of God, God Has A Plan

When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

- Max Lucado

source: Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.640, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Faith, Forgiveness, God, God Has A Plan, God Is In Control

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

- Michael Foot

topic: Mean, Progress, Purpose, Economic Problems, Elegant Solutions

We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Appreciation, Morning, Stars, Nourishment, Kind Words

I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits and property rights on the one hand and human welfare on the other, there should be no hesitation whatsoever in saying that we are going to place the human welfare consideration first and let property rights and financial interests fare as best they may.

- J. S. Woodsworth

topic: Rights, Government, Hands, Providing, Purpose Of Government

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

- Shemar Moore

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Foundation, Vulnerability, Respect Women, Providing

There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it

- William Wallace

topic: Country, Thinking, Differences, Individual Differences, Brave Heart

Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?

- Chief Powhatan

source: Address to Captain John Smith, delivered in 1609

topic: Love, War, Food, Providing

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

topic: Life, Work, Mean, Right To Life, Providing

Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.

- Keri Arthur

source: Keri Arthur (2008). “The Darkest Kiss: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.5, Dell

topic: Coffee, Ice Cream, Chocolate, Providing

First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: Mean, Dark, Keys, Organized Crime, Payroll

I fully share the Congress's objective of promoting nonproliferation and combating Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile delivery systems. This issue remains at the top of the agenda with Russia as well as with other countries whose companies may be providing such assistance to Iran. In the case of Russian entities' cooperation with Iran, we have imposed penalties ten times in the past and stand ready to apply them again whenever necessary.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Country, Past, Russia, Providing

To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.216, Penguin

topic: United States, Purpose, Taxation, Providing, General Welfare

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

- Jane Jacobs

source: Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.238, Vintage

topic: Cities, Architect, Capability, Providing

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

- David Viscott

topic: Beauty, Strong, Pain, Providing

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

topic: Art, Mean, Men, Providing

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Marriage, Providing

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.

- Joseph John Thomson

topic: Educational, Distance, Discovery, Providing

The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own capacities, their rights too, rather than providing them with ready-made solutions.

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

topic: Responsibility, Rights, People, Providing

A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We score companies from around the world and use Knoodle so they can easily sync video and presentations together for a more effective pitch. We send these pitches to judges all around the world and it's critical that we have a flexible tool that is easy to create, easy to deliver, and effective at letting audiences understand the entrepreneur and their innovation.

- Chris Shipley

topic: Keys, Judging, Entrepreneur, Providing

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

- Allan Bloom

source: "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 289, 1990.

topic: Caring, Men, Rights, Providing, Hume

Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them; but because it's true.

- Criss Jami

topic: Beautiful, Fun, Believe, Providing

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

- Robert Heller

topic: Teamwork, Motivation, Inspiration, Providing, Team Leader

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Spiritual, Children, Caring, Providing

If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Real, Loss, Law, Contracting, Providing

[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

- Edward Bellamy

source: Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.56, VM eBooks

topic: Home, Perfect, Quality, Providing

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Views, Providing, Benefit Of The Doubt

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

- Jeff VanderMeer

topic: Mean, Interesting, Mind, Providing

I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.

- Mitch McConnell

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Mean, People, Age, Eligibility, Warren Buffet

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.

- Robert A. Lovett

topic: Practice, Mystery, Pleasure, Providing

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight...

- David Rakoff

topic: Children, Window, Insight, Providing

I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

- Robert L. Peters

topic: Clients, Excited, Construction, Providing

Games are providing rewards that reality is not.

- Jane McGonigal

topic: Reality, Games, Rewards, Providing

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let’s take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

- John Hagel

topic: Order, Creating, Design, Providing

Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector.

- Michael Lerner

topic: Military, Government, Support, Military Industrial Complex, Providing

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

- Boman Irani

topic: Dark, Actors, Done, 3 Idiots, Comic Relief

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

- Mark Dayton

topic: Years, Sick, Friendly, Minnesotans, Providing

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Mother, Jesus, Children, Faith In Jesus, Providing

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

- David Hobson

topic: Garden, Enjoy, Providing

Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

- Michael Imperioli

topic: Unique, Blue, Cities, Providing

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

- Kenneth G. Wilson

topic: Nature, Understanding, Inquiry, Providing

The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.

- Walter J. Phillips

topic: Artist, Law, Landscape, Providing

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Children, School, Carpe Diem, Music Culture, Music In Schools

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

- Eva Figes

topic: Children, Husband, Father, Husband And Father, Good Husband

LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.

- Marcus Garvey

topic: Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Men, Moral Law, Providing

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

- Jon Porter

topic: School, Perspective, Records, Providing, School Districts