Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Ryle

We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.

J. C. Ryle

We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

Isaac Watts

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

Isabel Allende

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

Isabel Allende

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

Isabel Allende

You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

Isabel Allende

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Harrison Ford

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

Harrison Ford

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Harrison Ford

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

Harrison Ford

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.

Harrison Ford

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

Harrison Ford

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Guy Lafleur

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

Guy Pearce

Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

Guy Kawasaki

When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.

Guy Kawasaki

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Greg Chappell

He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Greg Giraldo

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

Grace Zabriskie

The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

Glenn Ford

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Gertrude Jekyll

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

Gerald Brenan

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Harry Cohn

I dont have ulcers, I give them

Harry Browne

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

Harry Browne

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

Harry Browne

When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

Harry Browne

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

Harry Browne

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

Harold Geneen

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Gwen Davis

Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.

Gwen Stefani

It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly.