Give And Take Quotes by Joshua Bell, Samuel Smiles, George H. Smith, Winifred Holtby, Helen Rowland, Bernie Mac and many others.
Music – you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It’s not about me: it’s about the music itself.
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism – the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
Love is a matter of give and take — marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev’n with Paradise devise the snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blackened – Man’s forgiveness give and take!
And ev’n with Paradise devise the snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blackened – Man’s forgiveness give and take!
Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.
That’s the beauty about love. It’s not about give-and-take – it’s about feeling safe in one’s needs – wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.
Why shouldn’t the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don’t know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Thus the sum
Forever is replenished, and we live
As mortals by eternal give and take.
The nations wax, the nations wane away;
In a brief space the generations pass,
And like to runners hand the lamp of life
One unto other.
Forever is replenished, and we live
As mortals by eternal give and take.
The nations wax, the nations wane away;
In a brief space the generations pass,
And like to runners hand the lamp of life
One unto other.
O who would trust this world, or prize what’s in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev’ry minute?
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev’ry minute?
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.
When you find somebody who doesn’t give and take, you go, ‘Remind me never to work with you again.’
Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.
