Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

Stanley Milgram

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

Stanley Kubrick

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

Stanley Fish

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Stanley Kunitz

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

Stephen Vincent Benet

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

Stephenie Meyer

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.

Taylor Caldwell

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Tammy Bruce

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

Tamara Mellon

Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.

Tabitha Soren

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

Tacitus

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

Sylvia Plath

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

Swami Vivekananda

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

Rosalind Wiseman

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Rollo May

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Rumi

Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.

Rumi

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

Rumi

Silence gives answers.

Rumi

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

Tom Peters

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Tom Robbins

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Tom Robbins

I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.

Tom Lantos

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

Tom Krause

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Tom Kite

Give luck a chance to happen.

Tom Baker

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

Todd English

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

Toni Braxton

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

Steve Wozniak

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

Steve Largent

What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world.

Steve Guttenberg

I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.