Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

John Ruskin

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

John Ruskin

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

John R. Allen

The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

John Patrick Shanley

Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

John P. Kotter

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

John Milton

He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

Norm MacDonald

In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.

Noel Gallagher

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

Nita Ambani

Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.

Nina Simone

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Misha Collins

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

Mitch Albom

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."

Mitch Albom

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

Mitch Albom

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Mitch Albom

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Mitch Albom

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Mitch Albom

No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

Mitch Albom

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Mitch Albom

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Mike White

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

Mike Tyson

I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.

Mike Tyson

My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.

Mike Tyson

You never lose until you actually give up.

Mike Tyson

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

Miguel de Cervantes

He that gives quickly gives twice.

Miguel de Cervantes

He who gives early gives twice.

Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Thomas Jefferson

I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

Robert Holden

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

Robert Hilburn

I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.

Robert Higgs

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.

Robert Hass

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.