Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Scheer

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

Paul Samuelson

Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q. (Performance Quotient) will not give away such rent to the Ford Foundation or the local bank trust department. They have too high an I.Q. for that.

Paul Samuelson

Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

Paul Ryan

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Paul Greengrass

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Paul Hawken

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

Paul Goodman

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

Paul Anka

You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.

Paul Arden

The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you will become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. Somehow the more you give away the more comes back to you.

Paul Auster

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Patrick Kavanagh

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Patrick Henry

Give me liberty or give me gout?! Ok, who's been messing with this?

Patrick Henry

Give me liberty, or give me death! While we're at it, I would also like a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Pat Buchanan

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

Pam Brown

Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.

Julia Quinn

You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe. “If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.

Julia Quinn

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Joseph Joubert

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

Kristin Chenoweth

I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.

Kristin Hannah

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

Klaus Schulze

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Knut Hamsun

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

Knut Hamsun

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

King Albert II

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

Myles Munroe

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Moliere

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Molly Ivins

I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

Mike Todd

Giving. What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver.

Mike Shinoda

Right now, when it comes to making an album, we really want to give our fans just Linkin Park. We don't want to water it down with anything else or confuse it with anything else. Meteora is just us and that's where our focus has been. So hopefully the fans can enjoy that.