#generous

Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#good #love #nothing-to-give #self-destruct #wished

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it. ↗

— James Thomson

#easier #forgive #generous #offence #than

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him. ↗

— Herman Cain

#blame #border #clear #concessions #generous

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#detain #egoism #food-for-thought #generous #happiness

I got him a cool gift. I got him a pack of razors, and a really furry dead cat.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #dead #death #funny #generosity

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

#generous #how #less #politics #possible

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#capable #cunning #doing #few #generous

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#experience #generous #hundred #just #me

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#generous #had #i #knew #money

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 #generous #guy #i #make