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Quotes About Generous

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
~ Keith Richards
The best way to live is God's way. His commands are not burdensome (1 John 5:3); they are made for us to enjoy life. God made the world. He is the only person qualified to write the User's Manual. And because he is loving and generous, his instructions will always lead to the best and happiest life. The
~ Phillip D. Jensen
Medicine is a demanding mistress, yet she is faithful, generous, and true, She gives me the privilege of seeing patients and of teaching students at the bedside, and thereby she gives meaning to everything I do.
~ Abraham Verghese
Listening is talking for him; there's an eloquence to this kind of attentiveness; it's rare, and yet he's generous with it. He alone amongst all the people she knows uses his two ears and one mouth in that exact proportion.
~ Abraham Verghese
I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
~ James Rebhorn
You know, I think it was very important that my grandmother be perceived a very particular way in terms of being charitable or generous. I don't think Donald cares about those two things necessarily. He has his own version of what he wants the world to see.
~ Mary L. Trump
Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredible performer and actor - and, aside from that, just a generous human being.
~ Seth Numrich
America is very generous, but it's also a bit wacky, you know.
~ Tim Pigott-Smith
I am benevolent.
~ Chris Eubank Sr.
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.
~ Joseph Heller
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22
~ Joseph Heller
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
~ Agatha Christie
Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them—and, that way she missed love.
~ Agatha Christie
Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, Mr. Poirot, that there is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless—so sure. So generous and so demanding.
~ Agatha Christie
I don't think films about working class people are sad at all; I think they're funny and lively and invigorating and warm and generous and full of good things.
~ Ken Loach
She mentions orphans at every opportunity. Part of the Miss Teen Ragland competition involves answering a question about how you'd change the world or make a difference or improve yourself. For Tiffany, it doesn't matter what question she's asked, she always manages to explain how she'd help orphans. Maybe her generous heart and not her generous, uh, chest, helped her win the past three competitions.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
~ Michael Rosbash
I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
~ Kenneth Langone
You can easily justify to anyone about the need to keep supporting Israel. We get very generous support. We need it.
~ Ehud Barak
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
~ Howard Stringer
The study of disasters makes it clear that there are plural and contingent natures—but the prevalent human nature in disaster is resilient, resourceful, generous, empathic, and brave.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The poor misguided soul described me as generous, "a champion for the department and particularly its students"; he went on to say that my disagreeable nature was "at least 50 percent façade" and that "Fitger behaves like more of an ass than he actually is." Janet described these comments as persuasive praise.
~ Julie Schumacher
Kind-hearted observers found her full of pathos, and the less generous despised her.
~ Jung Chang
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
~ Samuel Johnson