Giving Quotes - Page 13

• When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Advice, Want

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• People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

  David Miscavige

  People, Ifs, Estimation

  "The Man Behind Scientology" by Thomas C. Tobin, www.sptimes.com. October 25, 1998.

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• Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Awards, Alliances

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• I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Race, Voice, Baptists

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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• Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

  Susan Howatch

  Life, Moon, Men

  FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Jul 25, 2016

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• For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Philosophy, Men, Light

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• The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

  Mo Yan

  Spiritual, Views, Voice

  Mo Yan (2013). “Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is no almost in giving your all.

  Wes Fesler

  Effort

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• Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.

  Dolly Parton

  Clothes, Funny Graduation, Advice

  "Puff Daddy Delivers Howard University Commencement Speech, But How Does It Rank?" by Emma Goddard, www.bustle.com. May 11, 2014.

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• They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Suffering, Asceticism, Faces

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.359, Open Road Media

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• Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

  Mira Sorvino

  Acting, Legs, Film

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• My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Kids

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 16, 2012

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• The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.

  Jonah Sachs

  Empowering, Marketing, Today

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• Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content.

  Heather Hart

  Giving Up, Book, Don't Give Up

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• If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

  Heather Hart

  Children, Book, Writing

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• My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

  Graham Roberts

  Ambition, Spurs, Capacity

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• If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Different, Answers

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• And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

  Little Milton

  Stars, Real, People

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• I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

  Matthew Perry

  Car, Months, Like You

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• Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Money, Sex, Book

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• I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

  Omar Sharif

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

  Anne Desclos

  Kinky, Facts, Proof

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• Few people give themselves time to be friends.

  Robert Southey

  Loyalty, People

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.611

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• The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.

  Lyoto Machida

  Art, Philosophy, Discipline

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• When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Moving, Frustration

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