Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevyn Aucoin

I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

Khaled Hosseini

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

Khaled Hosseini

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

Khaled Hosseini

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

Khaled Hosseini

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

Khaled Hosseini

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

Khalil Gibran

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Khalil Gibran

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

Khalil Gibran

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Khalil Gibran

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

Khalil Gibran

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

Khalil Gibran

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

Khalil Gibran

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Khalil Gibran

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Khalil Gibran

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Jonathan Swift

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

Jonathan Sacks

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

Jonathan Sacks

Giving is what makes a nation great.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice

Naomi Wolf

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

Naomi Wolf

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

Narendra Modi

This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.

Narendra Modi

Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.

Narendra Modi

We will link farmers to global markets. We will give the world the Taste of India.

Napoleon Hill

The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

Napoleon Hill

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.

Napoleon Hill

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

Napoleon Hill

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

Napoleon Hill

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

Napoleon Hill

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.