Gives Quotes - page 19

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it. (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)
I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage. View quote
Joseph Joubert
the place [Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts] is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.... [it] looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge – essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there. View quote
Marsden Hartley
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. View quote
Charles Dickens
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. View quote
Brian Eno
The will for victory which gives a commander the strength to see a grave crisis through is something very different from Hitler's will, which in the last analysis stemmed from a belief in his own 'mission'. Such a belief makes a man impervious to reason and leads him to think that his own will can operate even beyond the limits of hard reality - whether these consist in the presence of far superior enemy forces, in the conditions of space and time, or merely in the fact that the enemy also happens to have a will of his own. View quote
Erich von Manstein
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs. View quote
Konrad Zuse
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. ... Both are illusions. (Eckhart Tolle)
The concept of Blood and Soil gives us the moral right to take back as much land in the East as is necessary to establish a harmony between the body of our Volk and the geopolitical space. View quote
Richard Walther Darré
Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to diesomeone tell me y. View quote
Tupac Shakur
(God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam. View quote
Yusuf Qaradawi
Those whose conduct gives room for talk Are always the first to attack their neighbors. View quote
Molière
The true Amphitryon Is the Amphitryon who gives dinner. View quote
Molière
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. View quote
William Shakespeare
Ill look to like, if looking liking move But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly. View quote
William Shakespeare
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. View quote
Warren Bennis
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. (Leo Tolstoy)
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems. View quote
Robert Orben