Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Jones

I'll be staying in touch and keeping my fans and friends updated on my progress. I'm looking forward to getting back on the road to give the people what they want,

Lisa Gardner

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Lindsay Lohan

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

Pema Chodron

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

Peter Coyote

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Peter Capaldi

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

Kim Novak

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

Lee H. Hamilton

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Larry Niven

Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

Lewis Carroll

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

Joseph Goebbels

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

Karl Barth

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

Paullina Simons

You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander

Paul Valery

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Joyce Meyer

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

Elizabeth Goudge

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.

Joe Biden

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

Louis Zamperini

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Jonathan Krohn

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Jonas Salk

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

Katee Sackhoff

Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

Emma Stone

You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.

Emma Goldman

What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.

John Hickenlooper

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

John Heywood

To give importance to trifling matters.

Francois Fenelon

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Gary Cole

But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work.

Louis Armstrong

When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

Mahalia Jackson

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Mahatma Gandhi

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.