Giving Quotes - Page 31

• It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Art, Nature, Self

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1982). “Haiku: Haiku”

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• Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Feelings, Language

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

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• I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

  Thomas Mullen

  Family, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Life, Worry, Sentimental

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• The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Games, Feelings

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• God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Powerful, Yield, Light

  Harold S. Kushner (2006). “Overcoming Life's Disappointments”, p.15, Anchor

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• There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Dark, Clothes, People

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• When other people ask me, 'What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?', my answer is, 'If I don't, someone else, perhaps less qualified, will.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  People, Answers, Standards

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.146, Feral House

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• The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

  Wilbur Smith

  Kissing, Men, Color

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• What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Understanding, Fellow Man

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Being”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Peaceful, Progress

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria

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• True budo is a work of love. It is a work of giving life to all beings, and not killing or struggling with each other. Love is the guardian deity of everything. Nothing can exist without it. Aikido is the realization of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Struggle, Love Is, Aikido

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• When you give your heart and you give it to God, where your treasure is, that's where your heart is. And so you put your heart in your hand which is in the form of monetary- or money, or offering, and you say, 'God! Here it is!'

  Steve Munsey

  Heart, Offering, Hands

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• You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Perfect, Feminist

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• Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

  Satyajit Ray

  Morning, Two, Directors

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  Edi Rama

  Artist, Color, Joy

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• It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Cutting, Space, Progress

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• The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.

  Brian Behlendorf

  Great Things, Flexibility

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• Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy. Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome. Join your gut. Join the constant challenge of seeking greatness. Join play. Join the hunger to find what makes you happy. Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.

  Bode Miller

  Karma, Giving Up, Fun

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Organization, Long

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

  Dorothy Draper

  House, Details, Rooms

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• What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Goal, House, May

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!

  Lincoln Peirce

  Boys, Enough Time, Noses

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Meaningful, Book, Issues

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• In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Giving Up, Scene, Instance

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