Generous Quotes - Page 8

• The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

  Howard Stringer

  Years, America, Energy

  7 Copy quote

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  R. L. Stine

  Believe, Saint, Way

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

  Veronica Webb

  Average, Circles, People

  4 Copy quote

• The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Generosity, Greed, Quality

  7 Copy quote

• Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Grateful, Earthquakes, People

  7 Copy quote

• I mean, I like nice girls, and I like people who are generous.

  Thomas McDonell

  Girl, Nice, Mean

  "Exclusive Interview: Prom's Thomas McDonell". Interview with Carly Nelson, www.seventeen.com. April 28, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

  Rebecca Wells

  Sweet, Forgiving, Praying

  4 Copy quote

• Hyun Joong hyung is totally a real man. He is very generous, easy to get along, and dependable. Sometimes, he would hide and cry secretly at night. He won’t tell others when he is sad about something. He’ll bear the sadness himself. He has a strong personality (he will not fall).

  Kim Kyu-jong

  Strong, Real, Fall

  16 Copy quote

• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  People, Mind, World

  4 Copy quote

• We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.

  Noel Gallagher

  Able, Needs, Alumni

  9 Copy quote

• What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Jobs, People, Safety

  4 Copy quote

• The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

  Harland Miller

  Christmas, Light, Blue

  14 Copy quote

• Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Heart, Wrinkles, Youth

  19 Copy quote

• A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Heart, Men, Generous Man

  7 Copy quote

• And my wife is - you know my wife, Hanna Rosin - it's hard, there's no doubt. We have three kids, and it's a pain. I'm away a lot and it's hard on her, but she's been very generous about it and my kids have been very good about it, too. It also allows me when I'm Washington to be more intent with them.

  David Plotz

  Pain, Kids, Wife

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Congratulations, Giving, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.173, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Skins, Weakness

  17 Copy quote

• For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  School, Army, Soldier

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.225

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Generosity, Mind, Want

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Consistency, Have Courage, Merciful

  7 Copy quote

• Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grief, Heart, Fate

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.22

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

  Robin Morgan

  Self, World, Splits

  7 Copy quote

• I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.

  Twyla Tharp

  Fall, Good Luck, Destiny

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

  Stan Smith

  Men, Caves, Gestures

  15 Copy quote

• Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Brother, Fall, Brazil

  4 Copy quote