It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
E. Stanley Jones

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles Barkley

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman Mailer

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
Muhammad Yunus

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey Newton