Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Maclean

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

Norman Maclean

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

Norman Lear

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

Orrin Hatch

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

Orson Welles

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Origen

The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

Oriana Fallaci

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Orhan Pamuk

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

Orhan Pamuk

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Omar Bongo

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

Olivia Goldsmith

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Oliver Stone

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Octave Mirbeau

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

O. Henry

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Octavia Butler

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

Octavia Butler

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Octavio Paz

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

Michael Buckley

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

Michael Buble

I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

Michael Buble

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

Michael Caine

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

Michael Caine

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

Michael Caine

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

Merritt Wever

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

Merle Shain

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

Melanne Verveer

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Melanie Chisholm

Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!

Master P

I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.

Masashi Kishimoto

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.

Masashi Kishimoto

Give up trying to make me give up

Masashi Kishimoto

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up

Masashi Kishimoto

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.