Gives Quotes - page 3

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. (Mary McCarthy)

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

William Cowper

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Hilaire Belloc

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Albert Camus

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Václav Havel

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

Leonardo DiCaprio

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Arthur Schopenhauer

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Michel de Montaigne

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. (Anatole France)

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Jim Morrison

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949.

Albert Schweitzer

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Edward Young

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

Sergei Lukyanenko

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. (Francis Quarles)

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Francis of Assisi

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Ramsey Clark

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