Famous Quotes & Sayings

Potter Stewart

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Poul Anderson

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

Poppy Z. Brite

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

Pierre Omidyar

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

Piers Anthony

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!

Nelson Mandela

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

Nelson Mandela

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

Kristen Stewart

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Kristen Stewart

You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.

Kris Allen

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

Kiran Bedi

The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.

Kip Winger

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

Oral Roberts

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Orel Hershiser

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Omar Suleiman

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

Oprah Winfrey

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

Oprah Winfrey

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

Oprah Winfrey

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

Oprah Winfrey

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

Oprah Winfrey

Never give up your power to another person.

Oprah Winfrey

Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.

Oprah Winfrey

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

Oprah Winfrey

If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

Oprah Winfrey

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

Oprah Winfrey

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

Oprah Winfrey

Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

Oliver Reed

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

Oliver Goldsmith

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.