Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Jodi Picoult

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Jodi Picoult

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Jodi Picoult

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

John Gray

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

Ken Follett

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

Ken Blanchard

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Ken Blanchard

What we give our attention to, grows.

Kazimir Malevich

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

Kristen Stewart

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Kristen Stewart

You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.

Kris Allen

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

Kiran Bedi

The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.

Kip Winger

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

Oral Roberts

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Orel Hershiser

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Omar Suleiman

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

Oprah Winfrey

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

Oprah Winfrey

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

Oprah Winfrey

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

Oprah Winfrey

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

Oprah Winfrey

Never give up your power to another person.

Oprah Winfrey

Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.

Oprah Winfrey

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

Oprah Winfrey

If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

Oprah Winfrey

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

Oprah Winfrey

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

Oprah Winfrey

Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

Oliver Reed

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.