Giving Quotes

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.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

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.

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

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

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

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

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

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

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

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.

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.