Gratuitousness Quotes

Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

I wake up every day and give my thanks.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.

My deepest respect to the clubs who considered having me.

We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard.

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

It is nice to be appreciated by the youngsters.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

I owe a lot to Chelsea.

All of my fighters should get down on their knees and thank me for what I've done for them.

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.