Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

Giuseppe Zanotti

I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!

Geraldine Brooks

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

Georgette Heyer

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)

Georges St-Pierre

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

Horace

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Herbert Spencer

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

Herman Melville

Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

Herman Melville

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

Herb Kohl

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

Henry David Thoreau

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Henry David Thoreau

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Jean Genet

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jillian Michaels

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

Jillian Michaels

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Jessica Lynch

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

Jessica Hahn

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Jessica Hahn

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Jerry Greenfield

I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy. What I've always wanted to do is set up situations in our company where if people who worked there needed help, we would try to help them, and at the same token if the company needed help from people, they would help us. A kind of give and take.

Jerry Falwell

Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.

Jeremy Collier

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

Jeremy Collier

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Jennifer Ehle

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

Jeff Thomson

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

Jeff Vandermeer

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."

Jeff Sessions

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.