Giving Quotes

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.