Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debbie Macomber

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Andre Norton

There's no night without stars.

William Shakespeare

Ingratitude is monstrous.

J. I. Packer

It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Imelda Marcos

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Jack Nicholson

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life,

Jack Kelley

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

Jack Kerouac

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

Cyndi Valentin

As far as the team, we didn't want to end our careers like that. We wanted to fight, stay alive and keep playing.

David Bowie

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

Amartya Sen

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Noel Gallagher

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

Philip Roth

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Jeff Goldblum

The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.

Iggy Pop

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Hannah Arendt

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Sam Waterston

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Larry Hagman

I was born with success. Lucky for me, I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it.

Oprah Winfrey

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Martin Bormann

I do my very utmost to live and act in such a manner that the Führer should remain satisfied with me... but whether I shall always be able to cope with the tasks entrusted to me in the future as well, is an open question.

Molly Ringwald

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.