Top 100 Quotes About Give Someone
#1. If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases
Guy Steele
#2. I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
Patricia Briggs
#3. At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
Marianne Williamson
#4. Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt.
Lauren DeStefano
#5. One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention
a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.
Ella J. Fraser
#6. If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?
Jeffrey Gitomer
#7. An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.
Joss Whedon
#8. You are loney, but you say you like to be alone" I nodded. "I do. I prefer it. But... it doesn't mean I don't want someone to love me. It doesn't mean that I don't have a lot of love in me to give someone
Karina Halle
#9. Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!
Louis Sachar
#10. Christmas isn't about getting, it's about giving, and when you give someone your love, that's the greatest gift of all. That's what God gave to us.
Frank Vincent Nunez
#11. It is better to give someone hampers of surprise than to hamper someone by surprise.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#12. That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman
#13. Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
Erik Larson
#14. The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.
Marshall Sylver
#15. To give someone good advice is to show a complete lack of respect for that person's God given ability to make mistakes
Fernando Pessoa
#17. It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison Bechdel
#18. When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
Sylvia Plath
#19. I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.
Nastassja Kinski
#20. I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval.
Paula Deen
#21. Sometimes giving means opening up and letting other know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you.
Marilyn Grey
#22. A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.
Croft M. Pentz
#23. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
Stephen Chbosky
#24. once you give someone a hope in its own life, the life its self is gonna give you back the happiness
Khaled Besrour
#25. The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to ask yourself whether it is in your best interests.
Margie Warrell
#26. The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.
Jarvis Cocker
#27. Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#28. Cheryl Cole got malaria ... well I guess that answers the question what do you give someone who has everything
Sean Lock
#29. If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.
Barbara Johnson
#31. What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#32. You've got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She's worked very hard to get where she is. I can't take that away from her.
Sonny Bono
#33. I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting your penis in their mouth.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#34. Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
E. Lockhart
#35. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
Tucker Elliot
#36. Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.
Maya Angelou
#37. Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can't go further when they don't even know how far you've come?
Steve Maraboli
#38. A FINE THING IT WAS TO GIVE SOMEONE THE LINGERING glow of memories.
Nora Roberts
#39. I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
Manish Dayal
#40. Plus, it seemed inconceivable to give someone money for a job we were capable of doing.
Carrie Brownstein
#41. You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Ken Robinson
#42. Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn't leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.
Gloria Tesch
#44. I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.
Giuliana Rancic
#45. His enthusiasm was exhausting and charming at the same time. He wanted to impress her, so she resolved to be impressed. It was a small enough thing to give someone.
James S.A. Corey
#46. Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don't get to be Corvina anymore. Now you're Corvina 2.0 - a dubious upgrade.
Robin Sloan
#47. But honestly, I hate my dad the most. Because you love him the most. When you give someone your love, you give them power over you.
Shelley Coriell
#48. What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?"
"A piano."
"Simon."
"A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?
Cassandra Clare
#49. You are on the inside. Deep in your muscles. That's you. The body is the extension of you. Only give someone your fingers, your skin, and toes if they deserve to touch your soul.
Rebecca Maizel
#50. I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
Ben Carson
#51. Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.
Simon Sinek
#53. When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#54. Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.
Kate Morton
#55. I project myself to love and devote my time and attention to someone without a reason, so at least I can give someone the feelings of being the most special person in someone's life.
M.F. Moonzajer
#56. To save money on gifts, give someone their favorite candy in a beautiful, customized vessel with a personalized tag. It's sweet and always appreciated.
Dylan Lauren
#57. Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.
Frederick Lenz
#58. [T]he greatest gift you can give someone is to introduce them to someone new.
Francois Lelord
#59. But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was ... and believe him when he did.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. 'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.
Tommy Hilfiger
#61. But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect retailers. Besides, that's part of the joy of Christmas ? to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them.
Mathew Staver
#62. For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.
Lucy Davis
#63. It's more cruel to give someone false hope than telling the bitter truth
Unknown
#64. Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.
Taylor Swift
#65. Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
Bernie Siegel
#66. Of all the advice I can give someone...this is the most important: Never mess with a coconut salesman. A sharp machete is always at hand.
Dean MacAllister
#67. It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.
Nick Swardson
#68. When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
Alexander The Great
#69. Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone who needs comfort is empathy from a heart that understands.
Timothy Pina
#70. I don't want to ever give someone that kind of power to destroy me.
Maya Banks
#71. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
Rick Warren
#72. But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.
Chelsea Cain
#73. The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and miracles will happen.
Chris Baty
#74. If you find a fork on your way when you are in need of a spoon, take it to give someone who is in need of a fork!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.
Mike Royko
#76. Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
Ambrose Bierce
#77. Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life.
Elizabeth Parker
#78. Sometimes the best gift you can give someone is the freedom to pursue their happiness.
S. K. Nicholls
#79. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.
Dolph Lundgren
#80. Even the smallest shots of positivity can give someone a serious competitive edge. Two
Shawn Achor
#81. I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.
Meg Cabot
#82. Give someone the power of the gods and he will become as indifferent as the gods.
Rick Yancey
#83. I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question ... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Tony Abbott
#84. Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.
Dorothy Koomson
#85. I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
Sam Raimi
#86. Everyday in the heat, rain and cold, I ran, alone in the woods ... in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. And I heard His whisper, You're stronger now. It's time to tell the truth of what happened. Tell your story to give someone hope.
Nikki Rosen
#87. Distance is all I can give someone I can't truly fathom.
Cecelia Ahern
#88. It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.
Davey Havok
#89. I should have known he and I weren't going to make it when for my seventeenth birthday he gave me a box of microwave popcorn and a used battery tester. You know, to test batteries before I put them in my Walkman. Like you give someone when you're in love.
Tina Fey
#90. You don't give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.
Dan Harmon
#91. You want to sub, baby, but you've got no idea what it means. When you give someone the power to do what they want to you, you also give them the responsibility of keeping you safe. Otherwise, you can't ever really give in and let go.
Amelia C. Gormley
#92. The best gift you can give someone is a part of your soul.
Jane Seymour
#93. I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them.
Leona Lewis
#94. It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.
Christopher Meloni
#95. I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#96. The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
Bob Newhart
#97. If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of.
Karl Blossfeldt
#98. One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#99. It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.
Thomas Keller
#100. No," Gideon says. "No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.
Paula Stokes
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