Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Alcott

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Aly Raisman

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

Alveda King

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

Anthony de Mello

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

Anthony de Mello

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

Anna Kournikova

Well, I'm playing for the fans so whenever they come and ask for autographs I always try to give it to everybody because I'm out there for the people.

Angela Cartwright

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

Angela Lansbury

You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later on, when you start to get the really great roles. You've played that part to a certain degree in that picture, and you played that one in that, and so on. You add it all up, and you have that experience.

Angela Lansbury

The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

Amy Hempel

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Amy Chua

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Amy Chua

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Alvar Aalto

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Alma Gluck

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

Alva Myrdal

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

Anne Rivers Siddons

... life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

Anne Sexton

And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

Anne Rice

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Anna Deavere Smith

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Anita Diament

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

Andrew Solomon

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

Andrew Solomon

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

Ameen Rihani

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly -- I know not which is the greater ...

Andy Murray

I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can.

Andy Murray

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Andrew Forrest

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.