Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall McLuhan

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

Mark Goulston

Wealth is what you take from the world; worth is what you give back.

Mark Helprin

As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.

Mark Haddon

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

Marisa Miller

Working your obliques pulls everything together and gives you a slim waist.

Marion Cotillard

Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person and as a director. I wanted to be perfect for him [Michael Mann]. I wanted to give the best of my best of my best. I don't know if I did, but I was touched by him. He's totally inspirational.

Maria Callas

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

Margery Allingham

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

Oswald Chambers

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

Oswald Chambers

The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.

Oswald Chambers

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

Oswald Chambers

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Oswald Chambers

There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.

Oswald Chambers

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Oswald Chambers

Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

Oswald Chambers

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Oswald Chambers

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

Oswald Chambers

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

Oswald Chambers

When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

Oswald Chambers

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

Oswald Chambers

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Oswald Chambers

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

Oswald Chambers

Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.

Oswald Chambers

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

Paul Rusesabagina

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Paul Scheer

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

Paul Samuelson

Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q. (Performance Quotient) will not give away such rent to the Ford Foundation or the local bank trust department. They have too high an I.Q. for that.

Paul Samuelson

Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

Paul Ryan

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Paul Greengrass

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Paul Hawken

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

Paul Goodman

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

Paul Anka

You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.