Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirk Douglas

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Kirk Cameron

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

Kirsten Dunst

I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.

Kirsten Dunst

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

Kim Campbell

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

Kevin Drum

Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

Kevin Garnett

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

Kevin Costner

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Ken Jeong

I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people - with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don't forget me.

Kathleen Norris

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

Kathleen Norris

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

Kathleen Turner

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

Karl Marx

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

Karl Marx

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Karl Marx

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Jules Verne

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Jules Verne

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

Julia Child

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

Julia Cameron

God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

Judie Brown

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person...

Judi Shekoni

I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

Judi Shekoni

When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are fresh meat, and people will meet you and give you a chance.

Jude Law

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

Jude Law

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that`s going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

Josette Sheeran

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

Josh Earnest

I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated.

Josh Brolin

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

We will be giving visas from January and the Pakistani consulate in Mumbai will also be functioning by that time,

This was sort of like our Cinderella, to come through here 1-0 and hold them after the pounding they've been giving to people. But you give credit. We got the pitches, and we made the plays defensively.

They learn about mentoring. They learn about giving back. They learn how to be role models and why it is important to be role models.

It was huge. I thought that the players responded well all week in practice, obviously disappointed in giving up one at home after the streak that we had, and we knew that we did not play to our potential.

Gerald R. Ford

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.