One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.
Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians' bizarre tantrums and illogical arguments.
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.
I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.
Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.
