Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niccolo Machiavelli

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Newt Gingrich

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Newt Gingrich

Give the park police more ammo.

Nhat Hanh

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Noah Munck

I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.

Noam Chomsky

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

Noam Chomsky

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship

Noam Chomsky

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Noam Chomsky

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Mike Myers

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

Mike Pence

The Trump Foundation is a private-family foundation. They give virtually every cent in the Trump Foundation to charitable causes.

Joey Bishop

A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!

Joey Ramone

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

Joe Scarborough

Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.

Joe Morton

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

Joe DiMaggio

There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.

Jodi Picoult

Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

Jodi Picoult

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Jodi Picoult

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Jodi Picoult

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Jodi Picoult

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

John Gray

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

John Green

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

John Green

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

John Green

It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.

Cassandra Clare

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

Cassandra Clare

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be that indefinable something that sent hungry hearts roving, longing and searching for something, they knew not what, and yet could not give up the quest.

Cassandra Clare

You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.

Caroline Wozniacki

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

Caroline Wozniacki

I never give up. Doesn't matter what the score is.