Giving Quotes

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.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

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.

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

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.

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.

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.

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

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.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

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.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

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.

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

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

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.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.