Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabriela Sabatini

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

Francois Fenelon

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

Francois Fenelon

As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

Francois Fenelon

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

Francois Fenelon

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Francois Fenelon

The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

Francois Fenelon

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

Francois Fenelon

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Francois Mauriac

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Frank Abagnale

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

Frank Chodorov

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

George Cukor

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

George Clooney

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

George Clooney

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

Gaylord Nelson

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

Gayle Forman

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

Gary Cole

But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work.

Lord Acton

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

&#8220In the last match, I didn't like the way (Both) rode by legs, but I was giving up 10 pounds today. I weight 160, but I have been doing that most of the year.

Alexander MacLaren

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Elayne Boosler

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

Edward St Aubyn

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

Edward St Aubyn

Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Edward Bok

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.

Edward Boyden

Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used, so having a company that makes the chemistry kit that anybody can use can save time.

Edward Albee

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

Edith Evans

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Edie McClurg

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

Edie Falco

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

Eckhart Tolle

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

Eckhart Tolle

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

Eckhart Tolle

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

Eckhart Tolle

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.