Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Benjamin Disraeli

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Ben Elton

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

Candy Crowley

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

Caprice Bourret

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

Caprice Bourret

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

Cardinal Richelieu

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Cameron Mackintosh

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

Cameron Crowe

I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that's visually iconic, or emotionally that way.

C. S. Lewis

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

C. S. Lewis

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

C. S. Lewis

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

C. S. Lewis

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Daniel Handler

I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.

Daniel Handler

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

Daniel Handler

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

Damon Lindelof

Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

Dan Ariely

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

Dan Ariely

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Craig Ferguson

There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.

Conor Maynard

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

Connie Willis

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

Connie Willis

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

Conor McGregor

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.

Coco Chanel

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

Clarice Lispector

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Clarence Day

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

Elizabeth Strout

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Elizabeth Taylor

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Eli Manning

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.