Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Davis

We worked hard for that bridge, ... We're not giving it up.

Aaron Neville

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

A. J. P. Taylor

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

A. J. Muste

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Aamir Khan

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

Abbas Kiarostami

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

A. B. Yehoshua

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

A. A. Milne

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

Aeschylus

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Adrienne Rich

... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

Adrienne Rich

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Agatha Christie

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Agatha Christie

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Agatha Christie

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

Agatha Christie

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Adrienne Clarkson

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

Adrienne Bailon

Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'

Adrian Rogers

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

Adrian Rogers

Give God what's right, not what's left!

Adrian Rogers

Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!

Robert Green Ingersoll

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Mark O'Connor

Never. They're giving me competitors. I see no reason to sell their products.

Larry Brown

Maybe we are giving effort. Maybe we aren't good enough.

Warrick Dunn

We'd have a list of charities, and say, 'These are the ones that effective. Which ones do you want to do?' This lets guys vote on where they want to put money, and we can put money in different areas, ... Guys want to see where the money's going to be used, not just that you're giving it to somebody and one half's going to overhead and one's half going someplace else. They want to know that it's being used and used right.

Jane Birkin

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

Jane Austen

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Jane Austen

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Jane Austen

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...

Jane Austen

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

Jane Austen

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Jane Austen

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.