Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

Neil Gaiman

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Neil Gaiman

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

Neil Gaiman

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

Neil Gaiman

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

Neil Gaiman

I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.

Neil Gaiman

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

John Piper

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

John Newman

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

John Wesley

Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That before I go hence and am no more seen, I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'

John Wesley

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

John Wesley

A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.

John Wesley

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?

John Wesley

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

John Wesley

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

John Waters

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.

John Templeton

Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life in a groveling mode, mistakenly believing they have to receive forgiveness from others. Forgiveness offers more than a reprieve granted to us by another person. True forgiveness is a process of giving up the false for the true and allows us to rid our thinking of rigid ideas. We can develop the flexibility to change our mind and our behavior patterns to higher and greater expressions and find new avenues to freedom.

John Templeton

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

John Templeton

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

John Ruskin

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

John Sterling

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

John Stossel

Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

John Stott

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

John Stott

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

John Steinbeck

The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

John Steinbeck

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

John Steinbeck

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Susan: "...My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

Shawnee Smith

I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.

Sherry Turkle

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Sherry Turkle

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.