Gives Quotes - page 11

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away. (Stephen Hawking)
It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. View quote
David Gilmour
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. View quote
Herbert Simon
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
A fop sometimes gives important advice. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. View quote
E. M. Forster
[Tolerance] is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends. (E. M. Forster)
After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Testimony gives something to be interpreted. View quote
Paul Ricœur
[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want. View quote
Jason Mraz
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. View quote
Emil Cioran
Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life. View quote
Marcel Desailly
18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK." View quote
Joe Satriani
Oh, she takes care of herself She can wait if she wants She's ahead of her time Oh, and she never gives out And she never gives in She just changes her mind. View quote
Billy Joel
I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. View quote
Maya Angelou
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. View quote
Edward Witten
It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation. (Edward Said)
Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live. View quote
Cesare Pavese
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? View quote
Willie Nelson
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. View quote
Joseph Addison