Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meryl Streep

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

Meryl Streep

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

Meryl Streep

I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity.

With a twenty-year horizon until retirement, she could invest in a rental property with a 15-year mortgage, which provides deductions. She would own the rental property outright around the time of her retirement. Then she would have two properties at retirement, giving her rental income without mortgage payment obligations.

Robert Kiyosaki

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

The power of not giving up is always greater than giving up.

We're the ones giving them the information and doing all the (research) work.

Adam McKay

Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.

You are only giving people a slice of the pie, and they know there is more.

You are taking too much and giving back too little in return.

Unfortunately for Doran, Minnesotans aren't interested in giving away the governor's office to an impulse buyer.

Two of those guys were back-ups and they were giving up weight tonight.

Dusty Baker

Every time I think about giving him a day off, he hits two home runs. Maybe I'll start thinking about that off day for him.

Ryan Giggs

But the main thing is to work on the stability of the team, not giving goals away, and scoring our goals will come.

Kevin Hall

The governor is giving it thorough and prayerful consideration,

Orson Scott Card

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Paul Simon

The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.

Peace Pilgrim

You must give if you want to receive. Let the center of your being be one of giving, giving, giving. You can't give too much, and you will discover you cannot give without receiving.

Orson Scott Card

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Orson Scott Card

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

Orson Scott Card

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Orson Scott Card

As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

Ram Dass

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

Ram Dass

Give it all up and you can have it all.

Ram Dass

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

Ram Dass

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

Ram Dass

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

Ram Dass

Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

Ram Dass

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

We were not giving them anything. Every time that we got to make a play, we made it because we practice the things we do. It was not a fluke.

We'll keep the audience, though, by giving them something auditory and visual at the same time. The sound is great, but the show you get is good, also." ()

Peter Jackson

Wow, ... You're giving us an incredibly overwhelming night.

The reason for the loss wasn't our inability to score. We're scoring a lot of runs, we're just giving up too many also.