Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarence Clemons

God will give you no more than you can handle,

Daniel Defoe

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Actors should never give interviews.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

Daniel Dennett

It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.

David Foster

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster Wallace

The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

David Foster Wallace

American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

David Attenborough

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

David Attenborough

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Davy Crockett

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

David Platt

Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.

David Platt

If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.

David Platt

We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

David Livingstone

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.

David Harewood

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

David Hawkins

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

David Charvet

Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

David Chalmers

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Curtis Hanson

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

Confucius

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Confucius

If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.

Daniel Webster

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

Ameen Rihani

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly -- I know not which is the greater ...

Andy Murray

I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can.

Andy Murray

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Ambrose Bierce

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

Anthony Hope

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.