Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Edwards

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

Jonah Lomu

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I dont give up. Never have. Never will.

Jonas Salk

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

Jonas Salk

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

Jon Secada

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

Jon Runyan

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

Jonah Lehrer

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

Jonah Hill

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

Jonah Goldberg

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

Jon Stewart

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

Jon Stewart

If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.

Jon Stewart

Whenever you take over something that is popular and has a fanatical following that loves it, you're never going to please everyone. The trick is to have enough wherewithal to follow through with what you want to do with it and give it time to evolve.

Jon Stewart

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

Jon Stewart

North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

Jon Stewart

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

Jon Stewart

And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.

Jon Stewart

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

Jon Stewart

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Joyce Carol Oates

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Joyce Carol Oates

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

Joyce Carol Oates

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.

Kate Walsh

I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

Katee Sackhoff

Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

Kate Winslet

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

Kate Adie

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Julie Bishop

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

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.