Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Farrelly

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

Peter Falk

Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

Pema Chodron

If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.

Pema Chodron

It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.

Pema Chodron

If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.

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

Pema Chodron

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

Pema Chodron

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

Pema Chodron

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

Pavel Datsyuk

When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.

Peter O'Toole

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.

Peter Chernin

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

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.

Pierre Trudeau

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

Phylicia Rashad

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

Phyllis McGinley

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Phyllis Diller

Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

Phyllis Diller

I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.

Rabindranath Tagore

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Rabindranath Tagore

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

Queen Victoria

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Queen Elizabeth II

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

Queen Latifah

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

Pitbull

Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

Maggie Stiefvater

I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.

Maggie Stiefvater

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

Maggie Stiefvater

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Madame de Stael

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Haruki Murakami

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.