Giving Quotes - Page 36

• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

  Larry Wall

  People, Use, World

  Interview with Maya Tamiya, lwn.net. January 17, 2001.

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• From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

  Trip Hawkins

  Running, Generations, Next

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• Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.

  Bob Taft

  Idaho, People, Problem

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• I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

  Black Kettle

  Soldier, Enemy, May

  Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in "The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains" by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Home, Learning, Dark

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 18, 2011

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• There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Home, Learning, Doors

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• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Mike Schmidt

  Sports, Roots, Tourism

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• I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

  Judy Chicago

  Thinking, Space, Important

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• In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

  Pia Zadora

  Husband, Past, Years

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• A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things... a mother's love is more than enough.

  Deniece Williams

  Mom, Mother, Giving Up

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• If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding.
  Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Understanding

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty of Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory, the wretch, who out of regard to his character, that is, to his fees, should follow the routine, when, from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance.

  Thomas Beddoes

  Death, Character, Science

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• I came, then, to serve my Church first of all, and the whole world, that is, every person I find along my way. I serve and I will give of myself unto death so that there will be no distance between speaking and doing, so that the people will never again say, 'there is a chasm between us and the leaders' and word spread that the Church is far from her people. I know very well that our people are good and that they want from us today to go to them, to seek them out wherever they are, to search out the lost and return them joyfully to the fold. They hunger and thirst for the Word of God.

  Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos

  Spiritual, Distance, People

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• Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.

  Umar II

  Wisdom, Islamic, Loss

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• I don't really like all the attention, because it feels like everything is about winning and they don't see the whole picture of my teammates and without my teammates, I don't think we'd be here right now. I get the attention ... if that day, I'm in the mood of signing autographs and taking pictures and even if I'm not, I'm like, he'll sign it for you, or he'll sign it for you. I can always give all the attention to my teammates because they handle it well.

  Mo'ne Davis

  Badass, Thinking, Winning

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• I give the moment permanence.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Photography, Moments, Permanence

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• The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

  Hafez

  Book, Wine, Care

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• Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

  Jackie Olson

  Cheer, Positive Thinking, Self Confidence

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• Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow's book buyers for today's dollars, especially when it's obvious that the source in question doesn't have any more dollars to give you.

  Courtney Milan

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  "On eating your seed corn". www.courtneymilan.com. February 25, 2011.

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• War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

  C. E. M. Joad

  War, Men, Position Of Power

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• Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.

  James Adams

  Ideas, People, Sound

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• Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strength, Journey, Triumph

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

  Isabel Paterson

  Government, Law, Persons

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.285, Transaction Publishers

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• Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Business, Ideas

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