#generous

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#generous #i #me #new #offer

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#appreciation #assure #disappointment #done #enhance

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#beg #begger #begging #coin #coins

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#generous #great #petty #wisdom

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. ↗

— George Mason

#extinguished #generous #human #human nature #infancy

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate! ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#edge #either #experienced #generous #great

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ↗

— George R. Gissing

#generousity #money #poverty #money

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disdain #few #generous #having #pleasures

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me. ↗

— Emily Watson

#am #amazing #beautiful #because #been