Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leighton Meester

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’

Laura Vandervoort

As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

Laurell K. Hamilton

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

Laurell K. Hamilton

ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.

Laurell K. Hamilton

You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.

Lars von Trier

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

Langston Hughes

Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

Langston Hughes

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

La Monte Young

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

John Keble

Give us grace to listen well.

John Kendrick Bangs

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

John Kasich

A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do.

John Keats

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

Julio Iglesias

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

Juliet Marillier

You thought you’d never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you’d never even consider it. But you’ve met the one man who could change your mind. He is your perfect complement. He is Cathal to your Clodagh; he is Bran to your Liadan. No wonder you conjured up those images. No wonder they make you weep.

Juliette Binoche

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

Juliette Binoche

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Julie Garwood

I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop." I'll give you a promise," he said gruffly. "And then you will cease your worrying." You will have confidence in my ability to protect you," he ordered. You will have faith in me. I command it.

Julie Garwood

I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

Julie Garwood

If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?

Joy Fielding

The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

Joy Bryant

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

Joy Williams

Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected - that's the heart of it. But it's so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.

Joyce Brothers

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Joseph Parker

Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no panic in the divine personality. God is peace, God gives peace, God gives rest.

Joseph Goebbels

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

Joseph Goebbels

The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.