Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Sutter

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

Liberace

I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

Liane Moriarty

Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.

Libba Bray

Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am?" What do you mean?" I mean would you still care for me, no matter what you came to know?" What a thing to ponder. I don't know what to say." The answer is no. He does not need to say it. With a sigh, Simon digs at the fire with the iron poker. Bits of the charred log fall away, revealing the angry insides. they flare orange for a moment, then quiet down again. After three tries, he gives up. I'm afraid this fire's had it." I can see a few embers remaining. "No, I think not. If..." He sighs, and it says everything.

Leslie Stephen

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

Gary Chapman

The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth.

Gary Chapman

Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

Gary Chapman

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

Friedrich August von Hayek

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

Friedrich Schiller

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Friedrich Schiller

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Harvey Mackay

As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

Harvey Mackay

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.

Louise Bourgeois

I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.

Louise Bourgeois

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Louise Hay

Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out.

Louise Hay

Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad.

George Andrew Olah

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

Genevieve Valentine

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

Genevieve Gorder

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

Camilo Villegas

You've got to put it in play out here. There is no need to start throwing it off line and giving shots away.

Jacques Ellul

Fate operates when people give up

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

Henry Rollins

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Henry Rollins

When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

Henry Rollins

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

Henry Rollins

I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

Henry Rollins

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

Henry Rollins

There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Henry Rollins

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Henry B. Eyring

Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.

Henry B. Eyring

Have you felt, as I have, the impression to help someone only to find that what you were inspired to give was exactly what someone needed at that very moment? That is a wonderful assurance that God knows all of our needs and counts on us to fill the needs of others around us.

Henry B. Eyring

It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.