Famous Quotes & Sayings

I really like how we've come back. I've been impressed with them. We don't have a lot of kids out there right now, but the ones we have are giving us everything they have.

In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Ahmed Akkari

I guess we took the illustrations to influential people so they could help. Is it so tough giving an apology?

I just thank God for giving us the opportunity, ... It's been a wonderful run. We just didn't get it done tonight.

If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart

If you're getting a significant refund, you're probably withholding too much and you're giving the government an interest-free loan.

Jennifer Aniston

I don't know, I mean, it sounds like you are giving me Santa Barbara.

Jack Kirby

I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little more than I would have if I didn't have enough money.

Jack LaLanne

Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

Jack Canfield

If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.

Jack Canfield

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

Jack Canfield

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

J. D. Salinger

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

J. I. Packer

The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.

Ismail Merchant

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Isobelle Carmody

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.

Irving Thalberg

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

Irving Thalberg

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

Irwin Schiff

If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.

Irving Paul Lazar

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

Ira Sachs

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

Jack McKeon

(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.

Jack Ma

Giving up is the greatest failure.

Jack Ma

We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.

Jack Ma

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Jack Nicklaus

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Jack Nicholson

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

Jack Nicholson

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

J. D. Hayworth

And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

J. Cole

When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

J. Cole

It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that's going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it's not even about religion. It's using that as canvas to get other messages across and that's what the album will be.

J. C. Ryle

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.