Quotes About Giving Presents

#1. Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the charm of usefulness and sadness of his giving.

Jack Kerouac

#2. You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

#3. The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

Frank Zappa

#4. Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

Penelope Lively

#5. The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and thought the gifts brought them a lucky year.

P.H. Ditchfield

#6. It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

Ronald Hutton

#7. The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Edmund Burke

#8. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Taking you to the shower. Me Tarzan, You Jane. Do as I say.

Lisa Renee Jones

#10. The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die
maybe.

Steve Earle

#11. When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

Malin Akerman

#12. I was never educated on the topic of alcoholism. I had to go through it, to understand it

Jim Serger

#13. Because obviously the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. If only life were that great
instead of burnt flesh and turning into ash we had money-giving fairies, bunnies laying pink eggs, and fat men coming down my chimney bearing presents ...

Christina Channelle

#14. Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

George Seaton

#15. ...this world presents us with so many false prophets that it's difficult for those of us with the most faith and love to refrain from just giving it all away to the first or flashiest bidder

Jonathan LaPoma

#16. We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

James E. Faust

#17. Why are you giving this to me?""well, for a lot of reasons. most of which i can't really explain properly. that's why people give presents, right? because they don't know how to express themselves in words, so you give gifts to symbolically explain your feelings.

Matthew Quick

#18. No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

Mignon McLaughlin

#19. A book is sacred gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

Jane Austen

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Larry D. Thompson

#22. Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

Publilius Syrus

#23. I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

John Bradshaw

#24. I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Paul Ryan

#25. As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#26. Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Lionel Shriver

#27. Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.

Judith Martin

#28. In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

Eddie Murphy

#29. The cost of a model is more than compensated for by future savings. It not only presents an accurate picture of the product for the executives, but it also gives the tool-makers and production men an opportunity to criticize and to present manufacturing problems.

Henry Dreyfuss

#30. The children danced on. They were alive; that is all that mattered. They lived for the moment. They danced when they could, and died when they would.

Lawrence Anthony

#31. Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Lou Reed

#32. Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#33. With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#34. Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Philip Sidney

#35. Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

Michel De Montaigne

#36. These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it's about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it's about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it's not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That's a mistake.

Simon Le Bon

#37. I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

B.F. Skinner

#38. Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are,

Ruth Reichl

#39. Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Philip Sidney

#40. But more important here is the rhetorical point that they make: Philemon is to respond to Paul because he, Paul, and Onesimus are all "in the Lord/Christ."1365 The fellowship that is created among those who have faith in Christ (v. 6) brings with it obligations to one another.

Douglas J. Moo