I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.
~By Kevin Garnett ~
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
~By Marc Davis ~
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
~By Alex O'Loughlin ~
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
~By James Cronin ~
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
~By Barbara Lee ~
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
~By Melvin Maddocks ~
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
~By Henry Ford ~
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
~By James Franco ~
Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
~By Tim Johnson ~
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~By George MacDonald ~
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
~By Keith Henson ~
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
~By Albert Camus ~
Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.
~By Janice Markowitz ~
Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
~By James Brown ~
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
~By Warren Beatty ~
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
~By John Gray ~
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
~By Bill Budge ~
Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
~By Colin Powell ~
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 ~
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 ~
In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
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 ~
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
~By Keith Miller ~
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
~By Thom Yorke ~
Giving is true having.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.
~By Stuart Symington ~
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
~By Harry Hay ~
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.
~By David Letterman ~
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 ~
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
~By Tony Snow ~
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 ~
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
~By P. D. James ~
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
~By Mick Jagger ~
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~By Anais Nin ~
That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
~By Dick Button ~
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
~By Solon ~
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
~By Damon Albarn ~
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
~By Ogden Nash ~
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.
~By John Shadegg ~
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
~By Major R. Owens ~
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
~By Charles Kennedy ~
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
~By David R. Brower ~
I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
~By Red Buttons ~
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 ~
The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
~By Louis Finkelstein ~
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
~By Gaylord Nelson ~
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 ~
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 ~
And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
~By John Bardeen ~
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
~By George W. Bush ~
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
~By John Clayton ~
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.
~By Edward Bok ~
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.
~By Lee Hazlewood ~
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
I believe in giving back very strongly.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.
~By James Ellroy ~
Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.
~By William Scranton ~
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
~By Jules Renard ~
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
~By Brian May ~
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
~By Robert Collier ~
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
~By Colin Powell ~
Planned change is good. It is being the best, giving your best, and doing your best-on purpose.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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