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Giving Quotes


"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."


"When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you."


"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."


"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."


"I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness."


"I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping."


"The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get."


"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."


"What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it."


"There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself."


"One promises much, to avoid giving little."


"Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in."


"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."


"I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up."


"We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them."


"Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real."


"Be generous. The outcome will blow your mind."


"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."


"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."


"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return."


"You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me."


"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."


"Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day."


"The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel."


"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing."


"When I was earning, saving, and spending, I felt poor. When I started to give away some of my earning for good purposes, abundance filled my heart."


"Give yourself without expecting any return."


"I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away."


"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."


"These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world."


"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."


"Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer."


"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."


"To give light to others, you must first take light from others!"


"Give yourself wherever you can, whenever you can. You will have more to give and share again and again."


"Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life."
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