Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hilton

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

James Ellis

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

James Dyson

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

James Dobson

God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it

Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Joseph Joubert

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

Kristin Chenoweth

I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.

Kristin Hannah

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

Klaus Schulze

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Knut Hamsun

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

Knut Hamsun

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

King Albert II

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

Myles Munroe

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Moliere

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Molly Ivins

I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

Mike Todd

Giving. What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver.

Mike Shinoda

Right now, when it comes to making an album, we really want to give our fans just Linkin Park. We don't want to water it down with anything else or confuse it with anything else. Meteora is just us and that's where our focus has been. So hopefully the fans can enjoy that.

Mike Epps

I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Mike Ditka

Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.

Mike Birbiglia

I just don't give off a great first impression.

Nathan Fillion

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

Nathan Fillion

There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'

Natalia Vodianova

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

Nancy Lopez

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Nancy Pearcey

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

Mukesh Ambani

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

Ken Wilber

The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

Kemmons Wilson

Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

Kathy Freston

Whole foods like grains and beans release their sugar very, very slowly because of the fiber in them, and they don't give you a sugar rush. They feed your cells as needed, and as a result, you have loads of stable energy that powers you through the day.