"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."
Read quote
7 likes
Giving quotes
Giving
21.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Giving
Browse quotes that often appear alongside giving — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Giving quotes (page 136 of 1095)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master."
Read quote
7 likes
"Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me."
Read quote
7 likes
"When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close."
Read quote
7 likes
"When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply."
Read quote
7 likes
"Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night."
Read quote
7 likes
"Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up."
Read quote
7 likes
"What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art ."
Read quote
7 likes
"Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance."
Read quote
7 likes
"When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them."
Read quote
7 likes
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
Read quote
7 likes
"You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away."
Read quote
7 likes
"I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books"
Read quote
7 likes
"Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow"
Read quote
7 likes
"Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at his program, almost no substance. Change, hope, what's that? I mean, he had some policies, but it was almost certain that he would give them up instantly, which he did."
Read quote
7 likes
"There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle the whole Iran issue. Nobody outside of the United States takes it to be much of an issue. They made a deal with Iran for Iran to essentially give away its low enriched uranium to Turkey for storage, and in return, the Western powers. It was immediately scratched by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And the main reason was they didn't want anybody else to be involved in it. We were supposed to run things, but we didn't say that."
Read quote
7 likes
"With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it."
Read quote
7 likes
"The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture."
Read quote
7 likes
"You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset."
Read quote
7 likes
"My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"
Read quote
7 likes