I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
~By Ron Paul ~
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
~By Stephen Stills ~
If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.
~By David Obey ~
I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
~By Marty Meehan ~
I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
~By Joe Wilson ~
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
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 ~
There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.
~By Pauley Perrette ~
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
~By Merle Shain ~
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
~By Sam Levenson ~
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
~By Joseph Hume ~
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
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 ~
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
~By Jean Paul ~
I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
~By George Saintsbury ~
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
~By Bob Woodward ~
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 ~
Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
~By Bill Budge ~
Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~By George Eliot ~
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
~By Joe Wilson ~
Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.
~By Charles Hodge ~
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
~By David Antin ~
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
~By Bill Cosby ~
LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
~By Scarlett Johansson ~
The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
~By Konrad von Gesner ~
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
~By George MacDonald ~
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
~By Nicole Appleton ~
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
~By Howard Barker ~
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
~By John Bardeen ~
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 ~
I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!
~By Judy Collins ~
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 ~
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 ~
We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
~By Andy Wachowski ~
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!
~By Tyrese Gibson ~
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 ~
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
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 ~
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 ~
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.
~By Roger B. Chaffee ~
I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.
~By Jonathan Cain ~
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
~By Jeff Miller ~
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
~By Philo ~
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
~By Pam Brown ~
The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
~By Dick Button ~
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
~By Billy Joel ~
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 ~
Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
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 ~
To be social is to be forgiving.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.
~By James MacArthur ~
I believe in love that's fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.
~By Jordan Knight ~
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 ~
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 ~
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.
~By Richard Marx ~
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
~By Camille Paglia ~
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 ~
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
~By John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ~
I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.
~By John Mayer ~
But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy.So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.
~By Joe Miller ~
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
~By John Cheever ~
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 ~
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
~By Emily Bronte ~
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 ~
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
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 ~
I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.
~By Boyd Rice ~
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 ~
Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
~By Adrian Cronauer ~
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
~By Andres Segovia ~
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 trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
~By Kate Chopin ~
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
~By Adam Arkin ~
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 ~
The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
~By Bobby Rahal ~
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
~By Rod McKuen ~
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