Give Me Quotes - Page 40

• And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Knowing, Giving, Action

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.12, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I have made revenue collection a frontline institution because it is the one which can emancipate us from begging. If we can get about 22% of GDP we should not need to disturb anybody asking for aid; instead of coming here to bother you, give me this, give me this, I shall come here to greet you, to trade with you.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Gdp, Giving, Needs

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• If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Father, Heart

  "Animal-Research Labs Increasingly Besieged" by Michael Specter, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 1989.

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• I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

  Kim Wilde

  Space, Giving, Would Be

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• I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

  Derrick Rose

  Sports, Wise, Sweet

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• There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

  Fanny Burney

  Running, Hate, Jail

  'Camilla' (1796) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Stupidity, Age

  1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.3, l.57.

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• Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

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• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Giving, Contentment, Doe

  "Landscapes of the mind" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.

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• Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

  Van Morrison

  Christian, Dark, Night

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• For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

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• For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

  Harlan Ellison

  Peace, War, Race

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• They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]

  Phil Collins

  Opportunity, Giving, Brave

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• Coffee gives me bad breath.

  Norah Jones

  Coffee, Giving, Breaths

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• My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

  Ina Garten

  Morning, Garden, Giving

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• It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

  Hector Berlioz

  Friendship, Heart, Character

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• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Eye

  Epicene act 1, sc. 1 (1609)

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• There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.

  Michael Douglas

  Sex, Mean, Giving

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• Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Sex, Believe

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Sex, Giving

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• I am climbing a difficult road;
  but the glory gives me strength.

  Propertius

  Strength, Climbing, Hiking

  "Elegies, IV". Book by Sextus Propertius, poem 10. 3,

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• Give me the gift of a listening heart.

  Solomon

  Communication, Heart, Giving

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• Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.

  Richard Hancock

  Depressing, Hate, Thinking

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