Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter McWilliams

Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.

Pete Waterman

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Pete Wentz

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

Pete Seeger

We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of things, but there we're all singing together. Gives you hope.

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Carroll

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.

Paulo Coelho

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

Paulo Coelho

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Paulo Coelho

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

Paulo Coelho

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Paulo Coelho

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other peoples' opinions.

Paulo Coelho

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Phil Robertson

I will not give or back off from my path.

Peter Singer

If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

Peter Marshall

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.

Rachel Carson

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

Questlove

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

Prince Harry

You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.

Primo Levi

Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human...

Prince

There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.

Prince

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.

Phillips Brooks

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Mother Teresa

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Mother Teresa

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

Mother Teresa

The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

Terry Goodkind

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

Sean Faris

Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.

Lesley Stahl

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

Neil Peart

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Thomas a Kempis

Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.

Sheila Ballantyne

You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.