Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randa Abdel-Fattah

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Rand Paul

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

Rand Paul

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Rand Paul

I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy.

Rand Paul

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

Rand Paul

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

Eric Hoffer

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

Eric Hoffer

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Eric Hoffer

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Eric Hoffer

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Eric Berne

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Enoch Powell

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

Emmett Shear

Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested.

James Clavell

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

James Cash Penney

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

James Cook

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

James Anthony Froude

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Jakaya Kikwete

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

Jacques Lacan

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Jacques Ellul

Fate operates when people give up

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

Henry Rollins

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Henry Rollins

When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

Henry Rollins

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

Henry Rollins

I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

Henry Rollins

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

Henry Rollins

There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Henry Rollins

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Henry B. Eyring

Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.

Henry B. Eyring

Have you felt, as I have, the impression to help someone only to find that what you were inspired to give was exactly what someone needed at that very moment? That is a wonderful assurance that God knows all of our needs and counts on us to fill the needs of others around us.