Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Albee

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

Edith Evans

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Edie McClurg

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

Edie Falco

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

Eckhart Tolle

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

Eckhart Tolle

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

Eckhart Tolle

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

Eckhart Tolle

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

Eckhart Tolle

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought...

The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.

Holbrook Jackson

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Holly Black

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Holly Black

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

Henry Van Dyke

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

Henri Poincare

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

Henri Matisse

I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.

Henri Nouwen

God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.

Henri Nouwen

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

Henri Nouwen

When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.

Henri Nouwen

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

Henri Nouwen

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

Henri Nouwen

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature. Solitude is a place where Christ remodels us in his own image and frees us from the victimizing compulsions of the world.

Heikki Kovalainen

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

Heath Ledger

Never give up on what makes you smile

Hayley Williams

The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind.

Heston Blumenthal

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Hesiod

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Helen Rowland

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Heinrich Heine

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

Heather O'Reilly

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.

Heather Matarazzo

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

Hilaire Belloc

Money gives me pleasure all the time.