Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

W. Eugene Smith

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

W. Clement Stone

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

W. Clement Stone

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

W. C. Fields

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

W. C. Fields

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

W. C. Fields

The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

Zosia Mamet

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer? "Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.

Zora Neale Hurston

If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.

Zora Neale Hurston

Such as I am, I am a precious gift.

Zachary Levi

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

Yvon Chouinard

The more I make the more I can give away.

Zac Efron

The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .

Yukio Mishima

The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

Zach Braff

I'd really like to give back to the world, but everything I've achieved, I've earned on my own, so what's the point?

Zach Braff

Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000 an episode. When really I'm the one that's being cheated, because the writer's strike is keeping me from all the money that I could be making. I need to eat, too.

Ze Frank

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

Zainab Salbi

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

Zig Ziglar

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.

Zig Ziglar

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

Zig Ziglar

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

Zach Braff

It's a give and take relationship with my fans. They give me love and adoration, and I take it from them.

Zach Braff

I really don't give a care, I'm going to live for ever

Zhuangzi

Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.

Zhuangzi

But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.

Sara Paretsky

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Sara Gruen

All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

Samuel Rutherford

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

Samuel Johnson

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Samuel Johnson

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Samuel Johnson

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.