Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

Miguel de Unamuno

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

Miguel de Unamuno

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Ned Vizzini

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

Ned Vizzini

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Nathan Myhrvold

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

Naomi Judd

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.

Naomi Judd

Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

Naomi Klein

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

Nadia Giosia

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

Mitchell Kapor

Having information that the other side doesn't have gives VCs an advantage... they take advantage of entrepreneurs who haven't been through this before... they were totally willing to take advantage of us.

Mitt Romney

The future of the United States and the most important election in a generation, and he [Donald Trump] is trying to con people into giving them their vote, just like he conned these people into giving them their money.

Mireille Guiliano

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

Mirra Alfassa

It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.

Miroslav Volf

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

R. A. Torrey

The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.

R. C. Sproul

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

R. Kelly

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

R. D. Laing

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

R. C. Sproul

We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

Publilius Syrus

Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

Publilius Syrus

Discord gives a relish for concord.

Publilius Syrus

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

Pratibha Patil

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

Preity Zinta

I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.

Potter Stewart

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.