Top 954 Offering Quotes & Sayings

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I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope.

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

First Fruits is more than just an offering... it's a principle.

Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.

Sometimes as a No. 8 you are making decoy runs, or you are offering and you don't get the ball.

Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works.

I can't be stopped from offering my respect to places of worship.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it's offering a whole new paradigm called 'discover' and allowing users to be creative.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

We do a stewardship series every Sunday...at offering time.

Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.

As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

It’s not that the universe wants you to be abundant; it is offering you the opportunity to take part in its abundance.

Be generous with your heart! The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use each other as our living temples, and put our best offering foot forward to see what direction life points us? I believe that if we live in a state of offering - even if we think we have nothing to offer - life blesses us and we feel more at peace with who we are and what we have.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contridicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire.

Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.

Nobody's offering me $100,000 for a video.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.

For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.

While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.

If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.

How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can't. We shouldn't. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.

There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.

My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.

Food should be a love offering.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities.

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse.