Gives Quotes - page 2

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Guy de Maupassant
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Graham Greene
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. (George Eliot)
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
Edward Gibbon
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. (Babe Ruth)
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
Anaïs Nin
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith