Giving Quotes - page 52

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out? (Marian Keyes)
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them. View quote
Marc Guggenheim
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody. View quote
Mark Cuban
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that. View quote
Mark Haddon
The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson
My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson
Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves. View quote
Martha Beck
There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world. View quote
Matthew Hussey
i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas. View quote
Maureen Johnson
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death. View quote
Maureen Johnson
Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right. (Maureen Johnson)
Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd. View quote
Melina Marchetta
No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]. View quote
Melina Marchetta
One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions. View quote
Mary Beard
Not giving up in itself is a form of excelling and would enable you to stand out amongst your colleagues. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
Never resign yourself to what the future holds. I coach too many individuals who have given up on trying to influence their future. They have abdicated responsibility, giving all kinds of lame excuses, blaming bad luck or other people for their lives to date and what the future holds. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
When kids run up to me and ask, 'What happened?' I just lean over and whisper, 'Cigarettes.' And once I was in a car and this girl at traffic lights was giving me the eye. She could only see my head, so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. Her face was like, 'Whoa, what is going on?' She sped off really quickly. View quote
Nick Vujicic
The greatest danger against which most men have warned us is that which comes from communicating intellectual secrets to minds become subservient to the authority of an inveterate habit, for such is the power of a long-lasting observance, that most men prefer death to giving up their way of life. View quote
Nicholas of Cusa
If you're worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them. View quote
Austin Kleon
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. (J. Oswald Sanders)
Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most. View quote
J. Oswald Sanders
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. View quote
J. Oswald Sanders
Without giving up hope-that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be-we will never relax with where we are or who we are. View quote
Pema Chodron
Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives. View quote
Penelope Lively