Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Hedberg

My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.

Mitch Hedberg

I opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, "Please try again." because they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I opened the yogurt wrong. ...Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me... "Come on Mitchell, don't give up!" An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top.

Mikey Way

Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something.

Mikey Way

We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.

Marilyn Ferguson

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Marian Wright Edelman

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

Marian Wright Edelman

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.

Maria Cantwell

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it,

Margot Kidder

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Mark Waters

People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch a movie where, if you feel like you're not following and you're going to get tested on it later, you're going to get disengaged. So, you have to give people just enough information, so that they're able to keep up with the story.

Mark Victor Hansen

Giving is the insured way of getting.

Mark Victor Hansen

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

Mark Victor Hansen

Give bouquets of business. Introduce your clients to each other so they can work and prosper together.

Mark Victor Hansen

When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.

Mark Victor Hansen

If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.

Mark Victor Hansen

Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living.

Mark Buchanan

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Mark Batterson

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

Mark Batterson

Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?

Mark Batterson

Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.

Mark Batterson

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

Marguerite Duras

Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

Maria Edgeworth

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Maria Edgeworth

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.