Giving Quotes

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.

I believe in giving back very strongly.

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

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

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.

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!

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.

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

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.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

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!

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.