#giving

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#bad #bad taste #exhilarating #giving #offense

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. ↗

— Evan Davis

#american #another #bad #black #christmas

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. ↗

— Alain Delon

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I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general. ↗

— Serena Williams

#giving #i #just #nice #nice person

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#george steinbrenner #giving #greatest #had #him

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career. ↗

— James Ellroy

#biggest thrill #career #character #continue #determined

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before. ↗

— John Entwistle

#am #before #doing #exactly #feel