#giving

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#already #eyes #giving #gracefully #having

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#calling #comes #countrymen #field #giving

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#empathy #giving #love #solutions #beauty

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances. ↗

— Dick Button

#form #giving #good #great #makes

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with. ↗

— Steve Carell

#just #kind #like #play #toy

The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space. ↗

— Roger B. Chaffee

#cleaner #eventually #everyone #giving #god

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#any #enemy #even #executed #fire

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#giving #greed #need #scripture #sharing

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally. ↗

— Brian Cox

#aged #bills #breakdown #chic #debt