Giving Quotes

'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

I believe in giving back.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.