Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Donne

we give each other a smile with a future in it

John O'Donohue

To understand the harvest of your soul against the background of seasonal rhythm should give you a sense of quiet delight at the arrival of this time in your life. It should give you strength and a sense of how the deeper belonging of your soul-world will be revealed to you.

John O'Donohue

So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown.

John Mott

The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?

John Moffitt

It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

John Millington Synge

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

John Desmond Bernal

In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

John Desmond Bernal

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

John Dewey

Where there is giving there must be taking.

John Dewey

Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.

John Dewey

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

John Dewey

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

John Dewey

A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.

John Cale

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

John Calvin

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

John Calvin

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

John Calvin

Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

John Belushi

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

John B. S. Haldane

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

Joel Fuhrman

Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

Joe Jonas

When life gives you lemons, throw them back.

Joe Hill

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

Joan Osborne

I have to say what I do is not easy and there are definitely moments where I feel inadequate to the tasks I've set for myself. And that's hard to feel - like you're giving your life to something and you can't really do it as well as you want to do it.

Joan Miro

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

Jimmy Smits

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Jimmy Wales

In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

Geoffrey Beene

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Garrison Keillor

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

Garrison Keillor

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

Garrison Keillor

Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

Gabriela Mistral

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Gabriela Sabatini

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.