Generous Quotes - Page 24

• Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Years, People

  "Here's the truth about my plan for immigration reform" by Marco Rubio, www.foxnews.com. April 23, 2013.

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• In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Order, Inspire

  "Celebrating Faith, Altruism And Our Modern Community" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Blessed, Compassion

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• I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Country, America, Europe

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

  David Schwimmer

  Karma, Feel Good, Benefits

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

  David Sedaris

  People, Judging, Fields

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Life, Generous Spirit, Giving

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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Money, Business, Generosity

  Ivan Roe, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1953). “Shelley, the last phase”

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• Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Brave

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

  Rod Stewart

  People, Looks, Wells

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• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  Barbra Streisand

  Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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• The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Enthusiastic, Joyous

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• Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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• It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

  Jacki Weaver

  People, Lovely, Culture

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Frances Wright

  Selfish, Stupid, Heart

  Frances Wright (1850). “Fanny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen: Explanatory Notes, Respecting the Nature and Objects of the Institution of Nashoba, and of the Principles Upon Which It Is Founded”, p.5

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Envy, Immigration

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• Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Demise, Deeds

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• Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

  Julian Baggini

  Meals, Guests, Hospitality

  "Think there’s too much excess at Christmas? I can’t get enough of it". www.independent.co.uk. December 21, 2012.

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• Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

  Bertrand Russell

  Iron, Discipline, Creative

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Generous Man, Hatred

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Men, Bully

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.577, Modern Library

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• A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Fairs

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

  Lisa Genova

  Creative, Bigs, Practicals

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

  Joseph Heller

  Three, Texan, Be Good

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy. Thinking that he might still be helpful in finding her Looking Glass Maze, she said, "I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

  Frank Beddor

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Glasses

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