Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Brashares

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Ann Brashares

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

Ann Coulter

The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle.

Ann Coulter

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.

Andrzej Wajda

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

Andy Garcia

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

Andrea Dworkin

I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.

Andrea Bocelli

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

Ana Castillo

Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

Amy Winehouse

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

Amy Winehouse

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...

Amanda Crew

If my body needs something, I need to give it that.

Amanda Burton

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

Amanda Beard

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

Afrika Bambaataa

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

Aesop

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Aesop

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Aesop

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Aeschylus

For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

A. J. P. Taylor

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

A. J. Muste

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Aamir Khan

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

Abbas Kiarostami

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

A. B. Yehoshua

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

A. A. Milne

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

Aeschylus

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Adrienne Rich

... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

Adrienne Rich

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Agatha Christie

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Agatha Christie

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Agatha Christie

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

Agatha Christie

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.