Gives Quotes

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.