Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Marie Le Pen

You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.

Gloria Feldt

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity.

Glenn Reynolds

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Gloria Allred

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Gloria Gaynor

The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.

Gloria Gaynor

I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give

Gloria Estefan

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

Giacomo Leopardi

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

Georgia O'Keeffe

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially [comedy], it gives me different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me,.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give nothing so freely as advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

Francis Quarles

Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

Francis Quarles

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Francis Quarles

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

Ian McDiarmid

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

Ian MacKaye

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

Ian Mcewan

...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

Ian Mcewan

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Ian Fleming

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

Hugh Hopper

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.