Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's "Historical Review," 1759, appearing also in the body of the work. -Frothingham: Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413.

Ben Affleck

If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

Aya Cash

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

Aya Cash

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

Arthur Godfrey

I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

Arthur Eddington

When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'

Arthur Golden

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Arthur Golden

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Arthur C. Clarke

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Arthur C. Clarke

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

Bela Lugosi

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Barry Sonnenfeld

When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn't want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both. And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.

Baltasar Gracian

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

Baltasar Gracian

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.

Baltasar Gracian

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

Austin Mahone

If I see my fans crying, I just want to give them a hug and tell them I love them.

Austin Mahone

Find out whats possible, If you never give up.

Austin Carlile

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

Austin Carlile

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

Aung San Suu Kyi

If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated

Ariel Winter

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

Ariana Grande

Never give up on something you love

Ariana Grande

If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.

Arianna Huffington

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

Arianna Huffington

Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them.

Anthony Trollope

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Anthony Trollope

Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

Anthony Trollope

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises...