Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mattie Stepanek

Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.

Mattie Stepanek

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

Matt Taibbi

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

Meg Rosoff

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

Meg Cabot

I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?

Maxwell Maltz

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

Maxwell Maltz

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

May Sarton

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

Maya Angelou

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

Maya Angelou

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

Maya Angelou

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

Maxim Gorky

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Max Stirner

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

Max Beckmann

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

Max Beerbohm

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Brooks

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.

Matthew Perry

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

Matthew McConaughey

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

Mark Skousen

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

Mark Shields

Let's give the president some due.

Mark Shields

Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.

Mark Shields

Tim Kaine reminds me of - Peter Hart.Tim Kaine is a good neighbor. He's kind of the dependable, you know, friendly, helpful. And, you know, he would be over there. He would give you a hand if there were a problem at the house.

Mark Shields

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

Marin Alsop

I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.

Marilynne Robinson

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

Marilynne Robinson

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Marilynne Robinson

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody.

I'm giving myself as long as possible to make a decision,

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.

I'm getting some good opportunities. I'm taking the shots they're giving me and making those shots. Whatever they give me, I'll take.