Generous Quotes

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

I'm very generous.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.