Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

Eric Hoffer

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Eric Hoffer

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Eric Hoffer

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Eric Berne

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Enoch Powell

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

Emmett Shear

Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested.

James Clavell

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

James Cash Penney

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

James Cook

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

James Anthony Froude

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Jakaya Kikwete

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

Jacques Lacan

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Friedrich Schiller

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Friedrich Schiller

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

Friedrich Schiller

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Frederick W. Smith

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

George Gilder

Capitalism begins with giving.

George Foreman

I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.

George Foreman

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

George Foreman

Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that my not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.

Jon Lovitz

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

Jon Krakauer

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

Jon Bon Jovi

When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.

Johnny Vegas

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

Johnny Vegas

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

Johnny Vegas

I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.

John Zorn

I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

Johnny Carson

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

Johnny Cash

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.