Giving Quotes

Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

~ Tove Jansson

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

~ Fred Melamed

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

~ Meghan Daum

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

~ William Baldwin

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

~ Tom Petty

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

~ Michelle Pfeiffer

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

~ Bo Bennett

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

~ Maureen Dowd

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

~ Camille Paglia

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

~ Story Musgrave

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

~ Noam Chomsky

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

~ Simon Cowell

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

~ Emile M. Cioran

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

~ James E. Faust

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

~ Angelique Kerber

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

~ Barack Obama

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

~ Hjalmar Branting

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

~ Arnold H. Glasow

I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

~ Colton Haynes

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

~ Tyrese Gibson

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

~ Ll Cool J

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

~ Yaya Dacosta

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

~ Henry Drummond

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

~ Adrian Grenier

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

~ Karen Salmansohn

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

~ Alain Delon

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

~ William J. H. Boetcker

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

~ Nicole Scherzinger

Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

~ Angela Duckworth

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

~ William Scranton

Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.

~ Kate Levering

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

~ David Letterman

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

~ Herodotus

Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

~ Tom Wolfe

What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.

~ Elliott Abrams

Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.

~ Aileen Lee

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

~ Renzo Piano