Generous Quotes - Page 32

• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Insecure, Age

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.84

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• Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

  Eve Ensler

  Crazy, Weekend, Special

  "A Gender Lens For Giving: Women In Philanthropy Urged To Invest More In Women And Girls". Interview with Tom Watson, www.forbes.com. September 18, 2014.

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• William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.

  Victor LaValle

  Moving, Heart, Adventure

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• A generous figure is always nice.

  Mimi Imfurst

  Nice, Figures

  TV Series "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" ("It Takes Two", 2012), www.imdb.com. (2012-).

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• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Wish, Saying No, Sometimes

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• You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

  Kit Harington

  People, Giving, Looks

  "The HBO Heartthrob: Kit Harington". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

  Elena Anaya

  Jobs, Thinking, Generosity

  "Elena Anaya: Almodóvar's new leading lady" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

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• You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.

  Courtney Love

  Men, Names, Drunk

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

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• I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

  Marilyn Monroe

  People, Littles

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

  Khandi Alexander

  Teaching, Arena, Done

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• Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.

  John Burnside

  Philosophical, Ideas, Interesting

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• There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.

  Alison Croggon

  Pain, Heart, Soul

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• Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

  Dana Reeve

  Inspiration, Grateful, Optimistic

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 23, 2004.

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• The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."

  Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

  Positive, Men, Ignorant

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• O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Love, Pain, Generosity

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• In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

  Peter Sotos

  Past, People, Marketing

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• I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dog, Uncles

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• Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Space, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. 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

  Pride, Two, People

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• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Men, Generous Man

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• Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Being Generous, Perversity, Resemblance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Dog, Fall

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.63

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• I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Morning, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

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• I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

  Isabel Gillies

  Inspirational, Marriage, Hurt

  Isabel Gillies (2009). “Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

  Francis Quarles

  Inspirational, Beauty, Wall

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