Gives Quotes - page 7

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. (Lalu Prasad Yadav)
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. View quote
Erich Fromm
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch. View quote
Bette Davis
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind. View quote
James D. Watson
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. View quote
Andrew Johnson
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. (Bill Mauldin)
It is not just power, but impotence, that corrupts people. It gives them the mind and soul of slaves. It makes them indifferent, lazy, cynical, irresponsible, and, above all, stupid. View quote
John Holt
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice. View quote
John Chrysostom
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.... View quote
John Cassian
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. View quote
Manuel Puig
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. View quote
Martha Beck
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. View quote
Pierre Loti
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something. View quote
William Goldman
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. View quote
Junot Diaz
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything. (Barry Gibb)
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. View quote
Langston Hughes
I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it. View quote
Louis L'Amour