Gives Quotes - page 75

The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted. Copyright © by Sherry Argov. (Sherry Argov)
My friends are all broad-minded, and well educated, but we do not keep a record of our conversations. The reason for this is (1) we are too lazy, and do not aspire to fame; (2) to talk gives us pleasure, but to write would give trouble; (3) none of us would be able to read it again after our deaths, so why worry; (4) if we wrote something this year we should probably find it all wrong the next year. View quote
Shi Nai'an
Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. View quote
Ashton Kutcher
Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not. View quote
Ashton Kutcher
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family. View quote
Junot Diaz
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. View quote
Bear Grylls
I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? If I define myself by things that are always changing, like the public's opinion, or what I'm wearing, or what job I'm doing, there's no stability in that. View quote
Blake Lively
All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus. View quote
Bob Proctor
I haven't touched a piano in so many years. I couldn't play with such crippled fingers, even if I wanted to. For a time after my marriage I tried to keep up my music. But it was hopeless. One-night stands, cheap hotels, dirty trains, leaving children, never having a home - [She stares at her hands with fascinated disgust. ] See, Cathleen, how ugly they are! So maimed and crippled! You would think they'd been through some horrible accident! [She gives a strange little laugh. ] So they have, come to think of it. [She suddenly thrusts her hands behind her back. ] I won't look at them. They're worse than the foghorn for reminding me - [Then with defiant self-assurance. ] But even they can't touch me now. [She brings her hands from behind her back and deliberately stares at them - calmly. ] They're far away. I see them, but the pain has gone. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is ... it gives everyone a voice. View quote
Brian Solis
I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties. (Bernie Siegel)
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. View quote
Vikas Swarup
I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be. View quote
Virginia Henley
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. View quote
Axel Munthe
The precariat has been losing cultural rights in that those in it feel they cannot and do not belong to any community that gives them secure identity or a sense of solidarity and reciprocity, of mutual support. View quote
Guy Standing
It is the system of great landed estates which invented and sustains the trafficking of whites and blacks who sell and buy men. ... It is this system which in the colonies gives the blacks of our plantations only a blow with a whip and a morsel of bread. View quote
Francois-Noel Babeuf
A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you. View quote
Debbie Ford
Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone. View quote
Debbie Ford
Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. View quote
David Amerland
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers. (David Christian)
When a person gives, he loves the object of his giving more -- and so love is planted and grows. View quote
David J. Lieberman
I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things. View quote
Derek Landy
There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published. View quote
J.A. Konrath
You just think about supporting a wife and children on a dollar and ninety cents a day. Most of us work on Sundays; poor people can't afford to rest on the Sabbath in a great city like this. Sometimes when I do have a Sunday off I go to church and take my wife and the children. It seems respectable, somehow, to go. And then the minister gets up and talks about the gratitude we ought to feel to God for all the blessings he gives us, and how thankful we ought to be that we live through his mercy. It may be very true as far as he is concerned, but I often think-and I don't mean to be ungrateful or irreverent-that most people in this world have very little to be thankful for, and very little reason to thank God for life at all. Nine tenths of the people in New York find scarcely a moment in their lives which they can call their own, and see mighty little but misery from one year's end to the other. View quote
Jack Finney