Giving Quotes - page 56

The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees. (Alex Berenson)
Happiness and a positive attitude are gifts you can pass along. So get out there and start giving. View quote
Denise Austin
From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile. View quote
J.R. Ward
Will you get off me!" "But I'm giving you CPR-" "I will die before kissing you, Hollywood." Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy. "Don't even think about it. View quote
J.R. Ward
When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she'd give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are part of the big, happy human family, that's a good thing, not a bad one. View quote
Jacob Weisberg
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them. View quote
James Patterson
The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted. View quote
Jane Smiley
I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself. View quote
Jennifer Morrison
The law of Love is based on abundance; we are completely filled with Love all the time, and our supply is always full and running over. When we give our Love unconditionally to others with no expectations of return, the Love within us extends, expands, and joins. So by giving our Love away we increase the Love within us and everyone gains. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky
Being in front of a class full of kids, you are giving a performance. You have to get their attention. You've got to awaken their curiosity. You become a bit of an entertainer. (Jeremy Wade)
If you can show your child what its like to be charming and giving, show your child what love is really all about and show your child unconditional love, show your child caring and compassion and understanding the nonjudgmental and that is what your child will become. View quote
John Assaraf
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it's so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind? View quote
John Bradshaw
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. View quote
John Piper
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion. View quote
John Stott
The eternal dragon is always giving our fallen down castles a rough time – always. View quote
Jordan Peterson
I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm fortunate that I had very sympathetic readers, but ordinarily - if a book makes you laugh too much, it shifts from "literature" to "entertainment." View quote
Joshua Ferris
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that. View quote
Eve Ensler
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning. View quote
Edward St Aubyn
When you walk into those situations that have a lot of conflict in them, the first thing to do is to be present enough to allow the other person to speak first. You're not giving power away; you're actually allowing them to feel seen and understood. (Amy Cuddy)
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. View quote
LL Cool J
I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live. View quote
Eloisa James
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books. View quote
Emma Donoghue
Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will spark in the fullness of time into the conflagration that Frank will go overseas to cover for Reuters, the pieces of a pattern drifting closer together. View quote
Emily St. John Mandel