Give Them Their Space Quotes

#1. I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

Jeremy Lin

#2. The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

Christa McAuliffe

#4. Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

Jaime Lerner

#5. He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

J.K. Rowling

#6. No, listen. Us girls, we might all look different, but we're pretty similar underneath. We like to appear responsible, to do what's expected of us, we're not supposed to be reckless and wild and go off running with dodgy space tramps like you. But give us a nudge and

Charlie Higson

#7. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#8. Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home.

Victor Hugo

#9. Perhaps I should sit up front with the driver and give you two enough space to beat the crap out of each other and settle this like grown adolescents. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. Give people time and space. Dont beg for anyone to stay. Dont beg anyone for Love. Whats meant for you will always be yours. If you are meant to be together you will be despite everything! Trust in Gods plans.

Lily Amis

#11. Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#12. 4. If you do not give your chickens enough space, light, air, and walking-around room, they will eat one another.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#13. Giving thanks doesn't change our circumstances; it changes our hearts. It makes space for grace to fill the empty place, for thankfulness to have its rightful place in our hearts. Joy prevails when we give thanks.

Jeannie Cunnion

#14. Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Danah Boyd

#15. When you are confident that you are the Father's treasured possession, you are also confident that his loving care will continue forever. Building warehouses is a waste of time and space. His gifts to you become things you want to give him back in gratitude. Then he gives you even more.

Edward T. Welch

#16. I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.

Katie Kacvinsky

#17. If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

Billy Connolly

#19. I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

Alan Moore

#20. And so, as the mob backs away to give them space ... as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as a sonata, Connor Lassiter holds his family like he'll never let them go.

Neal Shusterman

#21. The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them the space to be themselves and to develop their own personalities and characteristics.

Donald Trump

#22. High-class people have this concept called space, which means you cannot ask them questions or give them opinions about certain aspects of their life.

Chetan Bhagat

#23. Hey, let's give her some space. Get back to the game, guys," Chris says. Thank God for him, just this once. "And cheerleading. Get back to that, too." No one moves. "Okay, fuck off, basically, is what I'm saying. Fuck off!

Courtney Summers

#24. Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

Scott Carpenter

#25. As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Susan Sontag

#26. I've been going through a lot of ... stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.

Bradford Cox

#27. I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

Edward Hirsch

#28. The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm, nor the voice that echoes it.

Kahlil Gibran

#29. When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

#30. That's the purpose of old age ... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Colleen McCullough

#31. O, in the solitude of those mountains I feel free, free as the air, like a light blasting unharnessed through space. A thousand cities, a thousand palaces I would give just for a corner of the Philippines where far away from man I could feel truly free!

Jose Rizal

#32. Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

Julia Kristeva

#33. I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

Judy Chicago

#34. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

Jorge Bucay

#35. Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

Georges Braque

#36. Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.

Julie Wilson

#37. Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness

Eugene Gendlin

#38. I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

Henri Nouwen

#39. My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.

Michael Franti

#40. I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#41. She concluded that to be able to live without regrets, one has to let go of life that one has planned to give space to life which has been destined.

Madhu Vajpayee

#42. He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment's thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive.

Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the arena. Attack.

He had to move. Now.

G.S. Jennsen

#43. It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

A.R. Rahman

#44. I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

Anne Tyler