Gives Quotes

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.