Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Penn

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

Scarlett Thomas

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Lily James

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Liam Gallagher

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

Les Wexner

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Lenny Wilkens

If you want it, you've got to give it.

Lenny Bruce

Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

Lenny Bruce

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Lenny Kravitz

I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves.

Lenny Kravitz

We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.

Lenny Kravitz

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

Lenny Kravitz

I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

Lee Grant

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Lee Daniels

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

Lee H. Hamilton

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Laurie Garrett

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

Laurie Colwin

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

L. Ron Hubbard

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.

Thomas Aquinas

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

Thomas Aquinas

Give, expecting nothing there of.

Thomas Aquinas

Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.

Thierry Henry

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

Thierry Henry

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

Theresa May

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police

Therese of Lisieux

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

Therese of Lisieux

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

Therese of Lisieux

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Therese of Lisieux

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Tertullian

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

Terry Tempest Williams

Agitation gives birth to creation.

Terry Tempest Williams

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

Terry Tempest Williams

The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?