Top 100 Gives Quotes
#1. Every graveyard gives this very simple message: The nonexistence shore exists!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.
Edward Felten
#3. There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
Tim Jackson
#4. When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!
Barbara Conelli
#5. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.
Robert Hughes
#6. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure.
Margaret Atwood
#7. Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
Vaclav Havel
#8. In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
Isabel Allende
#9. When a person gives you a book to read, he's asking you to look into his soul.
Suzanne Morrison
#11. The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount.
Deana Martin
#12. Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.
Charles Baudelaire
#13. The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.
Matthew Pearl
#14. Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.
Glen Hansard
#15. I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
Roald Dahl
#16. A single-minded purpose gives sacred strength to achieve the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.
John H. Johnson
#19. being deeply loved gives you strength, and loving someone deeply gives you courage", and
Sheila O'Flanagan
#20. The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.
Dwight L. Moody
#21. He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
Charles Caleb Colton
#22. Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#23. Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#24. Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.
Steven Pinker
#25. What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?
Winona LaDuke
#26. If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him keep asking God, for he gives generously to all and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
Anonymous
#27. God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.
Wayne Stiles
#28. That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.
Thomas Gibbons
#29. When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
Patricia Neal
#30. God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
Little Richard
#31. PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength - without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.
Chalene Johnson
#32. You always say the best leaders figure out how to turn a bad situation to their advantage. When life gives you gators, make Gatorade
Jeff Garvin
#33. Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
Aamir Khan
#34. Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power." He
Joan D. Vinge
#35. There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt.
Ellen J. Barrier
#36. For those who've progressed a little way down the path of spiritual growth, one of the most intense delights of life in God is that just when we think He has filled our cup to the brim, He gives us a bigger cup.
Gary Henry
#37. When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.
Oscar Wilde
#39. The phone rang in the comm. center. Ian consulted the monitor. "It's Dan." He pressed a button. "Kabra here."
Dan's voice crackled through the attic. "Don't say it like that," he complained. "Your name still gives me heartburn.
Gordon Korman
#40. When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.
David Chipperfield
#41. You're what gives me strength. If I am what centers you, Nikki, then you are what anchors me. Every time I touch you, every time I bury myself deep inside you - Nikki, don't you see?
You are the talisman of my life, and if I lose my grip on you, then I have lost myself.
J. Kenner
#42. The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. I don't know if Oron has the power to control us, but if he does, he chooses not to. He gives humans their own free will ... and maybe that's why we are once again facing the darkness.
Melissa Pearl
#44. When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.
John Flavel
#45. Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Roland Joffe
#46. Apples, grapes ... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.
Kristin Chenoweth
#47. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.
Sonia Choquette
#48. Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#49. When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
Gary Allan
#50. We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.
P.D. James
#51. For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
Steve Aoki
#52. Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.
Jim Rohn
#53. But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.
Edward Young
#55. It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."
Jess Lair
#56. We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Guy Finley
#57. I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
Sarah Dessen
#58. We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference
Myles Munroe
#59. When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.
Harold Ramis
#60. It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
Carl Linnaeus
#61. A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
Christian Louboutin
#62. Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.
William Barrett
#63. In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.
Anne Robinson
#64. With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
Orson Scott Card
#65. If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#66. As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#67. Besides almonds or granola, I don't eat a lot during the day - juicing is what gives me energy.
Kelly Wearstler
#68. If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.
Alexander Pope
#70. I still do not understand why some people think they mean nothing to anyone; while their simple smile gives unlimited reasons for others to live.
M.F. Moonzajer
#71. A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
Kevin Bacon
#72. Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
David Allen
#73. The truth is, cutting raw meat off the bones gives us the creeps.
Megan Carle
#74. Which is why we say I can't live without you meaning your life gives life to me, who am otherwise an empty vessel, nameless.
Joyce Carol Oates
#75. Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.
Italo Calvino
#76. The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
Gustave Flaubert
#77. Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
Emile M. Cioran
#78. And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
Ray Stannard Baker
#79. At the summit, there are statues illustrating pilgrims from the past. Often there is an Englishman here; he spends his summers helping pilgrims. He sells cans of soft drinks and gives away tea; he also has some basic medical supplies to help pilgrims suffering from blisters. The
Leslie Gilmour
#80. Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.
John Lennon
#82. Running gives me a lot of pleasure. It's something I'll always do, as long as I can.
Paula Radcliffe
#83. I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!
Elton John
#84. Bull spots us and gives his two-thumbs salute, trotting backwards. Imm-pressive! All those years of practice are starting to pay off - his footy is still woeful but he's got the reverse trot down to a fine art.
Bill Condon
#85. The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#86. When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.
Henrietta Mears
#87. It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
Joy Bryant
#88. A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.
Jessica Khoury
#89. If life gives you lemons lets be honest you probably just found lemons
Kevin Donovan
#90. Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.
Pamela Anderson
#91. We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.
Sheri S. Tepper
#93. She's giving me that duh, really? look that my little sister gives me. Women must be born with that special talent.
Georgia Cates
#94. Laziness in Prayer Another weakness that gives the devil opportunity is when our prayer life declines. For example, the apostles in the Garden of Olives abandoned Jesus when he most needed their presence and friendship. Instead
Ed Broom
#95. Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!
Erland Josephson
#96. That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.
Conrad Hall
#97. A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences ... " Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man.
Joe Abercrombie
#98. There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
Gene Luen Yang
#99. Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.
Charles Hermite
#100. Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
Henepola Gunaratana
