Giving Quotes - Page 32

• Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

  C.J. Sansom

  Spy, Stories, World

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• I will be satisfied to the extent that I see everything I have as a gift from God. Here is the truth: Everything you have – your money, talent, friendships, marriage, children, material possessions, health, home, bike, car, even the country you live in – is a gift from God that He had chosen out of His generous nature to give you.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Country, Children, Home

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes): Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life”, p.7, David C Cook

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• Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We’re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He’s got a lot of ability. He’s shown some flashes of brilliance and then he’s shown some rookie mistakes. We’ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we’ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don’t know.

  Bob McNair

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Knowing

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• I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Men, Order, Challenges

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• For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Zest, Order, Silence

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• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Men, Squares, Feelings

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• See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Crazy, School

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• I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Children, Self Esteem, Kids

  "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.

  Michael Gurian

  Character, Independent, Boys

  Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin

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• Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

  Grigori Perelman

  Running, Opportunity, Emptiness

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• When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

  Reed Hundt

  Artist, Canvas, Paint

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• During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Horse, Distance

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• In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Garden, Generations, Benefits

  N. R. Narayana Murthy (2009). “A Better India, a Better World”, p.8, Penguin Books India

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• Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Powerful

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• Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.

  Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

  Thinking, Qatar, Gdp

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• Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

  James Alison

  People, Enemy, Identity

  James Alison (2010). “Broken Hearts and New Creations: Intimations of a Great Reversal”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

  Amy Sedaris

  Real, Night, Names

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. March 2004.

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• I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.

  Amy Sedaris

  Advice, Trying, Ill

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• As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, Ambition, Leafs

  "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.

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• America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

  Mark Burnett

  Feel Better, America, Earth

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• The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, College, Views

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• We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

  Sissela Bok

  Breathing Space, Childhood, Experts

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• Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.

  Fred Rogers

  Hurt, Children, Feelings

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• I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to personally devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human condition. More importantly, today's needs are so great and varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive interventions can have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed when the needs are greater.

  Chuck Feeney

  Meaningful, Intelligent, Thinking

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