Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Maya Angelou

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

Maya Angelou

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

Maya Angelou

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

Maya Angelou

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

Mattie Stepanek

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

Mattie Stepanek

Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.

Mattie Stepanek

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

Marianne Williamson

Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.

Marianne Williamson

We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.

Marianne Williamson

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

Marianne Williamson

Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation.

Marianne Williamson

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

Marianne Williamson

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

Marianne Williamson

Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

Mark Martin

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

Mario Andretti

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

Mario Batali

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

Marilyn Manson

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

Mae Whitman

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

Mae West

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

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.