Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

Oscar Wilde

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.

Madonna Ciccone

I don't give a damn if I go to hell.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

Madonna Ciccone

My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

Madonna Ciccone

If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

Maajid Nawaz

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Mac Miller

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

Lyle Alzado

People can portray me anyway they want because I don’t give a damn… But don’t you analyze me and don’t you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don’t you dare do it until then.

Lykke Li

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

Luke Rhinehart

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Lucretius

Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world; nor, further, can Those motions that give birth to things and growth Keep them forever when created there.

Louis Farrakhan

Hillary [Clinton] can't stop [Forces of Nature], [Bernie] Sanders can't stop it, [Donald] Trump can't stop it. But you can do something that will cause God to give America a longer time to exist as a nation.

Louis Farrakhan

I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

Louis Farrakhan

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .

Lorrie Moore

It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.

Margaret Millar

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

Margaret Oliphant

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Michael Jackson

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

Michael Jackson

We need Peace, We need Giving, We need Love, We need Unity.

Michael Jackson

Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.

Michael Jackson

No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

Michael Cudlitz

A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.

Michael Dolan

I am going to give from every corner of my soul.

Michael Dell

I had to give it a full go and see what happened.

Michael Cunningham

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Michael Crichton

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Michael Crichton

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Mia Farrow

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

Melissa Bean

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.