Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Akhmatova

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

Ann Voskamp

God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? "To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.

Ann Voskamp

It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

Ann Voskamp

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

Ann Voskamp

They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.

Ann Voskamp

God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Ann Voskamp

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

Ann Voskamp

Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

Ann Voskamp

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.

Ann Voskamp

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

Ann Voskamp

You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life

Ann Voskamp

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

Ann Voskamp

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

Ann Voskamp

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

Andy Pettitte

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

Andy Roddick

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

Albert Schweitzer

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Albert J. Nock

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Albert Ellis

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Albert Camus

Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom

Albert Camus

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

Albert Camus

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Albert Camus

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

Albert Camus

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

Albert Camus

When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.

Albert Camus

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Albert Camus

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

Albert Camus

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Amanda Hocking

I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.

Amanda Palmer

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

Annie Dillard

Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

Annie Dillard

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.