Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Close

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Jim Butcher

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Howard Schultz

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve,

Howard Schultz

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Honore de Balzac

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Ivan Illich

The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Debby Ryan

With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

Debby Ryan

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

E. O. Wilson

[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

E. O. Wilson

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

Drew Brees

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons

Tim Cook

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

Ellen DeGeneres

I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.

Linda Evans

Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

Lady Gaga

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Lewis Carroll

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...