Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willem Dafoe

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

Warren G. Bennis

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Warren Farrell

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

Ronald Reagan

There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

Saint Francis de Sales

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

Saint Francis de Sales

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

Saint Francis de Sales

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

Saint Augustine

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

Saint Augustine

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Saint Augustine

Give what You command and command what You will.

Saint Augustine

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

Saint Augustine

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Tori Amos

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

Tori Amos

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

Tori Amos

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

Tori Amos

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Tori Amos

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

Venus Williams

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

Venus Williams

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.

Vanessa Carlton

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!

Vanessa Hudgens

It's important, too, for people to see that it only takes one person to have faith in you, to care about you, to make you feel changed. We should all help each other out and give love to everyone as much as possible.

Vance Havner

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

Richard Dawkins

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

Rodrigo Santoro

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

Roger Ailes

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting story that their editor is going to like and that's going to further their careers, they're going to give you more ink and cover you.

Robin Wright

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

Robin Tunney

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

Robin Williams

Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

Robin Williams

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

Robin Ince

I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'