One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
~By Edward Levi ~
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
~By Sydney Smith ~
I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.
~By Billy Koch ~
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
~By James Stockdale ~
I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
~By Barbara Bush ~
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.
~By William Faulkner ~
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
~By Adam Arkin ~
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
~By James Patterson ~
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
~By Melissa Bean ~
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
~By Tim Cahill ~
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.
~By Corrine Brown ~
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
~By Irv Kupcinet ~
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
~By Charles Schumer ~
I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.
~By Jessi Colter ~
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
~By Joan Chen ~
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
~By Bobby Knight ~
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
~By David Rockefeller ~
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
~By Rick Warren ~
I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
~By William H. Hunt ~
It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
~By Raul Julia ~
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
~By Carol Burnett ~
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
~By James Cronin ~
What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it.
~By Thomas Ravenscroft ~
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
~By Henri Poincare ~
When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money.
~By Wink Martindale ~
I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.
~By Leonard Little ~
I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
~By Suzanne Somers ~
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.
~By Bob Inglis ~
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
~By Harry Browne ~
I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
~By Dan Hawkins ~
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
~By Charles Barkley ~
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
~By Eknath Easwaran ~
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
~By Nicole Appleton ~
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.
~By John M. Ford ~
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
~By Harry Hay ~
And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
~By Garth Brooks ~
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
~By Alma Gluck ~
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
~By Lillian Smith ~
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
~By Richard Whately ~
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
~By Hesiod ~
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
~By Michael Servetus ~
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
~By Henry Ford ~
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
~By Tony Snow ~
I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click.
~By Nick Lachey ~
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
~By Johannes Stark ~
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
~By Ian Anderson ~
I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
~By Roger Ebert ~
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
~By Daniel Pipes ~
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
~By Henry Drummond ~
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
~By Geoffrey Beene ~
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
~By Penelope Leach ~
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.
~By John Hull ~
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
~By Margot Kidder ~
I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
~By Stephen Collins ~
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
~By Bill Gates ~
And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.
~By Frank Darabont ~
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
For it is in giving that we receive.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
~By John E. Walker ~
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
~By Red Buttons ~
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
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