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The students and their parents had cheered, many of them waving American flags of their own. I thought about the country I'd just described to them—a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that idea and clung to it for dear life. For their sake more than mine, I badly wanted it to be true.
- Barack Obama
Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something about free-wheeling ladies with warm and generous hearts that he was never quite able to resist.
- Frederick Buechner
Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.
- Seth Godin
great marketing is the generous and audacious work of saying, "I see a better alternative; come with me.
- Seth Godin
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
- George Eliot
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.
- Jane Goodall
And as he had seen her that day, so she had remained; never quite the same height, yet never below it: generous, faithful, unwearied; but so lacking in imagination, so incapable of growth, that the world of her youth had fallen into pieces and rebuilt itself without her ever being conscious of the change.
- Edith Wharton
Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'
- Mother Angelica
There are no kinder, more generous, more welcoming, more hospitable people in America than in the 92 counties of Indiana.
- Mike Pence
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22
- Joseph Heller
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
- Samuel Johnson
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.
- Ashton Kutcher