Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Arden

The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you will become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. Somehow the more you give away the more comes back to you.

Paul Auster

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Patrick Kavanagh

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Patrick Henry

Give me liberty or give me gout?! Ok, who's been messing with this?

Patrick Henry

Give me liberty, or give me death! While we're at it, I would also like a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Pat Buchanan

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

Pam Brown

Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.

Julia Quinn

You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe. “If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.

Julia Quinn

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.

Judd Apatow

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

Joseph Simmons

Never give up just because it gets hard

Joseph Sobran

Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

Leonard Woolf

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

Nelly

A great body is a gift you give yourself

Nellie Bly

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent

Neko Case

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

Neil Young

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

Rachel Scott

I had my ups and downs and I fell a few times, but I did not give. Don't give up...

Rachel Maddow

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

R. L. Stine

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

Mike Huckabee

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

Mike Huckabee

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Newt Gingrich

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Newt Gingrich

Give the park police more ammo.

Nhat Hanh

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Noah Munck

I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.

Noam Chomsky

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.