Gives Quotes

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.