Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie Corelli

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority ...

Mariel Hemingway

I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

Mariel Hemingway

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

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

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

Theodore J. Forstmann

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.

Theodore Kaczynski

Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

Theodore L. Cuyler

When God says to us, " Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you,"He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.

Theodor Adorno

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

The Weeknd

You know me, but you don't know me. I give you what I want to give you. I relate to villains like that - but I'm not out to destroy the world.

Terry Jones

What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.

Margaret Mead

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

Margaret Halsey

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Margaret Halsey

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.