Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

Marge Piercy

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

Marge Piercy

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

Mark Zandi

In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.

Mark Zuckerberg

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.

Mark Zuckerberg

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Teresa Medeiros

Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

Teresa Palmer

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

Terrell Owens

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so-called "good image guy" and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

Terrell Owens

There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.

Ted Turner

What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.

Ted Cruz

President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

Ted Cruz

The media ought to be just giving a fair shake to everybody.

Ted Cruz

When people are motivated by principles larger than themselves, you don't have to beat them over the head to get them to act. You simply empower them, you inform them, you give them tools, and they take it upon themselves to act.

Ted Cruz

Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science."

Ted Cruz

I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in a primary.

Ted Cruz

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

Ted Cruz

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Theodore Roethke

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Manny Pacquiao

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

Manmohan Singh

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

Mallory Ortberg

You're right to want to minimize your compulsive physical behavior in the workplace before it bothers your co-workers, but I hope very much you can also give yourself credit for the work you're already doing.

Mallory Ortberg

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

Mandy Moore

I'm definitely not the person to be giving anybody dance lessons.

Malcolm Muggeridge

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Malcolm X

Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

Malcolm X

The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Mahatma Gandhi

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

Mahatma Gandhi

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.