Quotes with alms-giving

Quotes 61 till 80 of 225.

  • P. J. O'Rourke Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Giving opens the way for receiving.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Adrian Cronauer Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Pat Riley Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Emily Brontë Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Gates I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
    Source: Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Rosa Parks I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Leo Buscaglia I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Barnett Newman I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
    Source: Selected Writings and Interviews
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Tupac Shakur I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Sir Richard Steele I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Ben Hecht I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Col. Harland Sanders I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
    Col. Harland Sanders
    American businessman, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) (1890 - 1980)
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