Gives Quotes

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.