Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Kidder

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

Tracy Morgan

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

Sarah Jessica Parker

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

Sarah Dessen

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

Sarah Dessen

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

Sarah Dessen

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Sarah Dessen

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

Sarah Dessen

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Sarah Dessen

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

Sarah Dessen

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Sarah Dessen

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

Sarah Dessen

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Sandra Brown

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Sandra Bullock

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

Sandra Bullock

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

Sandra Bullock

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

Rohinton Mistry

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

Roger Mudd

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Ebert

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

Rod McKuen

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Robin Thicke

You have to give love to get love.

Robin Trower

If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

Robin McKinley

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Roberto Assagioli

A person who is able to be a living centre of peace in today's world and who is able to radiate that peace powerfully, ceaselessly, will be in a position to give needy mankind the benefit it lacks most and is in greatest need of.

Robert Toombs

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Robert Scoble

Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises [sic] you. Delights you. Gives you what you want (not always, but more often than the other engines).

Robert Quillen

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Robert Quillen

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

Robert Plant

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Satish Kumar

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.