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There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

To give your best is to receive the best.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.