Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. P. Lovecraft

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!

George Herbert

Who gives to all, denies all.

George Herbert

What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.]

George Herbert

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.

George Herbert

Promising is the eve of giving.

George Herbert

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

George Herbert

Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.

Georg Brandes

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Gary L. Francione

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

Gary Johnson

We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.

Gary Hamel

To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers , and generate options.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Jessica Valenti

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

Jessica Valenti

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

Jessica Valenti

I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up.

Jessica Valenti

If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.

Jessica Simpson

I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

Jessica Simpson

About losing a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera: "I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

Jerry Brown

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

Jerry Bridges

The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and...want to give up or try to work something out on our own.

Jerry Bridges

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

I feel like Mayor Dill should be giving this proclamation,

I can't be giving away penalties like that.

I'd say the pounding continued. Right now there are no answers. ... We just can't seem to get out of these jams without giving up something huge.

Tommy Amaker

I do think right now he's giving us a stabilizing feel.

I am not giving up hope. That's why I am keeping up my strength.

Bill Clinton

I am profoundly grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serve, to work for you and with you to prepare our nation for the 21st century.

Paul Young

I am not satisfied in giving up three goals.