Famous Quotes & Sayings

V. S. Pritchett

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

Val Kilmer

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Vaclav Havel

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

Vaclav Havel

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Vaclav Havel

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

Utah Phillips

You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed.

Tryon Edwards

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Tucker Max

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.

Susana Martinez

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Suzanne Collins

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

Suzanne Collins

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

Suzanne Collins

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

Suzanne Collins

I will never give up if you never give in.

Suzanne Collins

Better not to give in to it.

Suzanne Collins

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

Suzanne Collins

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Taylor Swift

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

Stevie Wonder

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

Stevie Wonder

Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.

Stevie Wonder

All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.

Steven Morrissey

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living

Steven Morrissey

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

Steven Morrissey

In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ?

Steven A. Cohen

There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.

Steven Bochco

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

Steven Pinker

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Steven Pinker

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Susan Jeffers

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.

Sun Tzu

When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.

Sue Naegle

Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.

Sue Grafton

Smile. It gives your face something to do.

Sue Monk Kidd

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

Sue Monk Kidd

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.