Generous Quotes

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
Krist Novoselic

Remember, Caring, Sweet

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.
Emily Watson

Amazing, Beautiful, Human

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
Sidney Altman

Nature, Time, Government

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
Cordell Hull

Great, Gratitude, Done

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth

Forget, Remember, Forgive

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.
Judy Biggert

Country, Open, Democratic

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
Laurence Housman

Greatest, Try, Wrong

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Thomas Guthrie

Feeling, Leave, Safe

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
William Samuel Johnson

Great, Passion, Last

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
Charlie Trotter

Whole, Spirit, Yes

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
Edward Tufte

Hope, Truth, Others

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
Jilly Cooper

Nature, Cook, Bespeaks

He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.
Katie Holmes

Great, Friend, Laugh

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
Andy Taylor

Great, Small, Working

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.
Donal Logue

Whole, Year, Loved

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.
Nicholas Negroponte

Best, Mean, Giving

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
Pamela Stephenson

Forward, Mind, Enough

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown

Politics, Less, Possible

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
Bill Bradley

Leaders, Modest

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
Lance Loud

Move, Definitely, Mortality

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
Max Irons

Humor, Kindness, Long

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.
Michael Buble

Become, Wanted, Hockey

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
Jackie DeShannon

Rock, Made, Everyone

Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.
Peter Agre

Good, Country, Ways

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
John Ensign

Job, Less, Actually

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.
Kelly Miller

Enemy, Giving, Start

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Laurence Stern

Nature, Human, Brave

I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.
Summer Glau

Everyone, Rules, Longer

Actors are very generous.
Blythe Danner

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
Peter DeFazio

Time, Big, Meaningful

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