Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

Robert Pattinson

It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.

Robert Pattinson

When the whole world is watch­ing you, they cre­ate sto­ries and give you labels that have noth­ing to do with you. It's almost impos­si­ble for you not to explode!

The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.

Robert M. Pirsig

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Farrar Capon

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

Robert Fisk

I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.

Wally Lamb

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Walt Disney

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.

Walt Disney

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

Virginia Satir

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

Virginia Satir

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

Vinod Khosla

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Vinod Khosla

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Viswanathan Anand

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

Walt Whitman

We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

Walt Whitman

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

Saul Bellow

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

Sarah Dessen

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

Sarah Dessen

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Sarah Dessen

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

Sarah Dessen

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Sarah Dessen

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

Sarah Dessen

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Sarah Dessen

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

Sarah Dessen

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Sandra Brown

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.