Giving Quotations | Page 4

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand

In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

If you're giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I'm taking the tickets to the hockey game. For me, it's by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don't know why it doesn't translate as well on TV.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyones got a free range for you.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.