Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Marianne Williamson

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

Sarah Lacy

When a PR person asks why is it a big deal that they got your name wrong or sent you a pitch on something you would never cover, it's because when you get hundreds of those a day, it's incredibly annoying. It's basically like having telemarketers call you all day long for something you never want to buy.

Shirley MacLaine

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so that we can fulfill our life's mission and His purposes. He wants us to be successful, and He will help us as we seek His help.

Bill Hybels

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.

Kate Capshaw

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

Mollie King

If anyone approaches me and asks if I'm Mollie from The Saturdays, I'm immediately shy and embarrassed.

Nancy Farmer

I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

Ashley Jensen

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.'

We were all happy for him. Any time a guy comes out and asks us for help and support, it makes us realize what we need to be doing as teammates to help him.

Aaron Paul

I just don't like to ask for things.

Walter Kirn

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

I think what this does is create more issues as the SEC goes up the Hill and asks for funding, ... I think this really did politicize the commission and it will take a long time to get past that.

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way

Coventry Patmore

They who ask for no sign shall have many.

Allan Sloan

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

I'm interested in every aspect of fashion. I think it's in my bones. When I was younger I used to be my mum's stylist, picking things out for her to wear. I'd say to her, 'If anybody asks you who styled you tonight say, 'Georgia.'

Gian Carlo Menotti

At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

Derek Jeter

I'm very, very competitive. If my grandmother asks to race me down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it!

Bradley Cooper

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

Blake Anderson

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.

Youri Djorkaeff

There are lots of people who want to learn here, and for a player like me, it's quite pleasant because everyone asks my opinion and watches me and listens,

There is a button that says 'Would you like to see these homes?' and then asks the specific times, are you qualified for a mortgage, are you likely to buy in three to six months.

We're not playing harder because he's leaving and stuff. We're just playing hard because that's what we've got to do for Coach, what he asks of us.

We had a big lead and thought we had it made, but we relaxed a little bit and they battled back. I'm a great believer you have to be ready to play 32 minutes of basketball if that's what your coach asks of you. I don't think we got that tonight.

We at the Nature Museum believe climate change is occurring, but 'Climate Chaos' asks the question, 'Is it occurring?' You see what the science says, you look at the last 100 years, you look at the next 100 years. You make the judgment for yourself.

The question Kiefer asks is: when do we have this heightened awareness of the scope of the universe?

Derek Jeter

You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

With a 10-year-old of my own who loves basketball, she asks me questions all the time that make me wonder how she knew that. I bet that was what Cassie was doing at her age.

I tell every young woman who asks me, be very careful about your choice of spouse. If you don't have a supportive spouse, it will be difficult to take on so many things.

Shane Battier

Every time somebody asks me about making the playoffs, I say you never take it for granted. We were the worst professional sports franchise in the country when we got here. We didn't have credibility or any momentum. Now, we feel we have credibility in the NBA. We're just searching for more by having success in the playoffs.