Quotes & Sayings About Giving Someone Everything And Getting Nothing In Return

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold

Hello, Consort,' Mauro boomed. He got to his feet, spread his arms, and curtsied. — Ilona Andrews

Dress designing ... is to me not a profession but an art, — Elsa Schiaparelli

Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves. — Leo Tolstoy

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. — Catherine Booth

God is the inevitability of humanity's search for true meaning. — Jared Brock

Max! Save Total!
-Angel
No, I'm flying down at 90 miles an hour just for fun
-Max — James Patterson

The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans. — Leigh Newman

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to get done. — Denise Linn

My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level. — Sean Lennon

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance. — Hill Harper

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. — Robert Breault