Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Ashe

With what we give, we make a life.

Ayrton Senna

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

Azar Nafisi

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

Aziz Ansari

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

Ayelet Zurer

If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere. One of those factors needs to happen. If not, it's sad.

Ayelet Waldman

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Ayn Rand

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Ayn Rand

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

We really feel that Minnesotans are a giving people, and that rate can be higher if people have an understanding of the need. Someone with Kirby's stature just speaks volumes about why this is something that's important to do.

Charles Bukowski

and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.

Charles Bukowski

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

Sydney Smith

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

The problem with the public-security organization is it's just so incredibly unreliable. There is no way this could happen without someone on the inside giving some assistance.

Edward Abbey

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Edward Abbey

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Aubrey Plaza

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Aristotle

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Aristotle

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

Aristotle

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

Ben Kingsley

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

Ben Harper

If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.

Ben Jonson

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

Ed Parker

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Earl Nightingale

Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

Earl Nightingale

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Elizabeth David

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.

Elizabeth Bowen

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.

Eliphas Levi

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

Edward Irving

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

Edward Herrmann

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

Deepak Chopra

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.