Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornel West

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

Cormac McCarthy

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

Cormac McCarthy

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

Cormac McCarthy

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

Common

When I see people of my likeness, or who are somebody that I feel connected to, doing something great, I fee like I can do it. It gives me some hope and vision.

Colum McCann

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Colum McCann

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Clifford Odets

There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?

Cliff Martinez

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

Cliff Martinez

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Davy Crockett

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

David Platt

Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.

David Platt

If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.

David Platt

We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

David Livingstone

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

David Livingstone

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.

David Hackworth

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Harewood

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

David Hawkins

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

David Charvet

Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

David Chalmers

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Curtis Hanson

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

Confucius

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius

I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

Confucius

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Confucius

If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.

Confucius

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

Confucius

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Daniel Webster

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

Dana White

Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

Dana Spiotta

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Dane Cook

I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

Dane Cook

You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.