Gives Quotes - page 5

'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. (Edmund Burke)
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph Addison
An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
Morarji Desai
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Colette
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Nicholas Sparks
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Djuna Barnes
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
Mary McCarthy
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. (Maxwell Maltz)
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
François Fénelon
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
William Stanley Jevons
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
William Cowper
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
Bertrand Russell
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!
Ron White
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.
Václav Havel
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. (Jane Austen)
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine II of Russia
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
Aung San Suu Kyi
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
Florence Nightingale