Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

Benjamin Franklin

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Augusto Pinochet

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

Augustus

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Augusten Burroughs

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Arthur Miller

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

Art Garfunkel

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

Art Modell

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

Arthur Ashe

With what we give, we make a life.

Ayrton Senna

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

Azar Nafisi

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

Aziz Ansari

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

Ayelet Zurer

If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere. One of those factors needs to happen. If not, it's sad.

Ayelet Waldman

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Ayn Rand

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Ayn Rand

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Ayn Rand

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Ayn Rand

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

Ayn Rand

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Ayn Rand

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

Ayn Rand

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

Ayn Rand

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Ayn Rand

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Bertrand Russell

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Benito Mussolini

Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

Benito Mussolini

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.