Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lita Ford

I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

Liz Murray

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Liz Murray

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

Lynda Barry

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

Lyndon B. Johnson

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

Luke Grimes

Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?

Lucian Freud

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Louise Penny

He tried to let her know it would be all right. Eventually. Life wouldn't always be this painful. The world wouldn't always be this brutal. Give it time, little one. Give it another chance. Come back.

Louise Rennison

P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.

Louis de Bernieres

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Louis Armstrong

When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

Loretta Young

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

Lord Byron

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

Lord Byron

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

Lord Byron

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

Lord Byron

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

Lou Holtz

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Lou Holtz

I give opinions, not advice.

Lord Mountbatten

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

Lorene Scafaria

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Lord Chesterfield

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

Lord Chesterfield

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Lord Chesterfield

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Lord Chesterfield

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

Lord Chesterfield

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

Lord Chesterfield

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Lord Chesterfield

Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

Malcolm Forbes

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

Malcolm Forbes

If you want understanding try giving some.

Malcolm Gladwell

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Malachy McCourt

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

Mahalia Jackson

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.