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I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~


Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~


I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.
~By Lorraine Bracco ~


To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
~By Victor Hugo ~


Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
~By H. L. Mencken ~


I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~By Anais Nin ~


An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
~By Irv Kupcinet ~


I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~


In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
~By Solon ~


Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~


As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
~By Allen West ~


Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.
~By Anson Jones ~


Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.
~By Peggy Fleming ~


My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~


Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~


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 ~


We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~


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 ~


Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
~By John Selden ~


Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
~By Henry Rollins ~


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 ~


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 remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
~By Lucian Freud ~


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'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
~By Dane Cook ~


Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
~By Ellen Barkin ~


The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~


How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
~By Robert Mondavi ~


It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~


I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
~By Charles Kuralt ~


It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
~By Garry Marshall ~


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 ~


I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
~By Joseph Hume ~


I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
~By Mary Oliver ~


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 ~


These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.
~By Jones Very ~


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 person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
~By Pablo Casals ~


Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
~By Pat Riley ~


There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
~By Henry Drummond ~


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 ~


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 ~


Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
~By H. L. Mencken ~


People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
~By Doug Coupland ~


Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
~By Bobby Scott ~


All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
~By Christian Bale ~


We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
~By P. D. James ~


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 ~


Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
~By Betty Buckley ~


There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~


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 ~


Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.
~By Gil Gerard ~


Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
~By John Clayton ~


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 ~


Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.
~By Stephen Evans ~


You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
~By Jim Henson ~


The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.
~By Johnny Isakson ~


Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
~By Ralph Steadman ~


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 ~


I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
~By Ted Stevens ~


Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
~By Tammy Wynette ~


If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~


If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
~By Tony Snow ~


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~By William Arthur Ward ~


Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
~By Carol Burnett ~


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 ~


I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
~By Gustav Mahler ~


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 ~


I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
~By Sean Astin ~


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 ~


We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
~By Andy Wachowski ~


Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.
~By John Prescott ~


Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~


At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
~By Robert Fritz ~


By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
~By Glenn Miller ~


What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it.
~By Thomas Ravenscroft ~


Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.
~By Roger Moore ~


It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~


Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
~By Fred Melamed ~


Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
~By Gore Vidal ~


What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
~By Don Zimmer ~


The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.
~By John Doolittle ~


Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
~By Larry Bird ~


Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
~By Colin Powell ~


Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
~By Melissa Bean ~


I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
~By Karen Morley ~


I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.
~By Stan Lee ~


In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
~By Mark Edwards ~


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 up is something a Lauda doesn't do.
~By Niki Lauda ~


We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
~By Glenn Beck ~


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 ~


The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
~By Ethel Percy Andrus ~


Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
~By Elayne Boosler ~


Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
~By Daniel Pipes ~


So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
~By David Dinkins ~


Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
~By Richard Roeper ~


We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.
~By Paul Kantner ~


When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
~By Matthew Bourne ~


It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
~By James S. Coleman ~

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